Brewer's: Meiny

(2 syl.). A company of attendants. (Norman, meignal and mesnie, a household, our menial.)

With that the smiling Kriemhild forth stepped a little space, And Brunhild and her meiny greeted with gentle grace.

Lettsom's Nibelungen Lied. stanza 604.

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