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menald, a.|ˈmɛnəld|
Forms: 7 menel(e)d, menelled, menild, 9 mennal, menald.
[? f. meanel + -ed2.]
Of animals: Spotted, speckled. Of a deer: Of a dappled chestnut colour. Also as n., a deer of that colour.
1611Cotgr., Grivelé, peckled, speckled; meneld, mayled, (blacke, and white). Ibid., Perdrix maillée, a Menild, or spotted Partridge. 1693Ray Syn. Quadrup. 86 Sunt..albis maculis pariter variegatæ,..ut à D. Robinson habeo, Menal'd Deer vocant. 1902Field Aug. 285/3 In 1863 the following colours and shades were to be seen in Garendon Park,..viz:—..black, fallow, dappled fallow,..mennal (Col. B.'s dappled chestnut), strawberry mennal (dappled roan) [etc.]. Ibid., All the light colours..were not so hardy as the blacks, dark duns, fallows and mennals. |