Men (?), n.,

pl. of Man.

 

© Webster 1913.


Men, pron. [OE. me, men. "Not the plural of man, but a weakened form of the word man itself." Skeat.]

A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.

[Obs.]

Piers Plowman.

Men moot give silver to the poure triars. Chaucer.

A privy thief, men clepeth death. Chaucer.

 

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