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Meiny   Listen
noun
Meiny, Meine  n.  
1.
A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train. (Obs.)
2.
Company; band; army. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Meiny" Quotes from Famous Books



... give in German, the published English translation being, as it seems to me, incorrect: "Es scheint mir als ob er in der zweiten Ausgabe seines allgemein bekannten Werks uber Korallenriffe einem Irrthume uber meine Beobachtungen zum Opfer gefallen ist, indem er die Angaben, die ich allerdings bisher immer nur sehr kurz gehalten hatte, vollstandig ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

... women and two men. Directly we left Koeln a waiter set forth trays in front of them laden with coffee, zwiebacks, hoernchens, and eggs. This meal over, they sat sleepily blinking their eyes, whisking away flies, and mopping the moisture from their faces until the sound of "Eis! meine Herrschaften!" "Bier! meine Herrschaften!" roused them from their lethargy. Ices and beer and cherries and peaches successively filled up the weary hours until "the tocsin of the soul, the dinner bell," carried joy to their hearts. I can never forget the rapturous ...
— A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes • Harriet Julia Jephson



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