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ˈman-keen, a.
[f. man n.1 + keen a.
Recorded later than the synonymous uses of mankine, mankind a., but possibly its original form.]
1. Of animals (rarely of persons): Inclined to attack men; fierce, savage. (See keen a. 2 c.) Now dial.
1568Hist. Jacob & Esau ii. ii. C j b, What? are you mankene now? I recken it best I, To bind your handes behind you euen as ye lye. Esau. Nay haue mercy on me, and let me not perishe. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 263 He cured a man-keene wolfe..by making the signe of the crosse. 1625Jackson Creed v. vii. §3 Boares and Bulls..grow often wilde, fierce, or mankene. 1632Sanderson Serm. 203 (If after all that they [dogs] still continue mankeen) knocke out their teeth. 1643Herle Answ. Ferne 6 How hard the Scripture is in yeelding any of its sincere milke for babes to these mankeene Gyants. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 83 If we are over-kind to them [horses], it is more likely to make them Man-keen (as we say) than better conditioned. 1893Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., Cattle are termed mankeen when they attack human beings.
†b. absol. or as n. A savage animal. Obs.
1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) II. 281, I have got so far on my journey, having bought a horse for my servant... It is a mankeen in miniature.
2. Of women: Very fond of men. Now dial.
1683G. Meriton Yorkes. Dialogue 17 Shees gane Eighteen And few but at that Age they are Man keen. 1876Whitby Gloss., Fellow-fond, Man-craz'd, Man-fond, Man-keen, love smitten. ‘She's desperate man-keen’, very fond of the men. 1889N. W. Linc. Gloss. (ed. 2). |