ween (wen)

[ And whan the i wil fighte, the i wille schokken hem to gidre in a plomp, that, zif there be 20000 men, men schalle not wenen that there be scant 10000. Mandeville , Travels, p. 252. But trewely I wende , as in this cas, Naught have agilt, ne doon to love trespas. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 462. may be discontinued by moe waies Prosper i tie than you would afore haue went. Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 34. Earle Robert would needes set forward, weening to get all the glory to himselfe before the comming of the hoste. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 35. Ye ween to hear a melting tale Of two true lovers in a dale. Scott , L. of L. M., ii. 29. Though never a dream the roses sent Of science or love's compliment, I ween they smelt as sweet. Mrs. Browning, Deserted Garden. weenong-tree (we'nong-tre), n. more edifying then the Sundaies. One solid dish his week - day meal affords, An added pudding solemnised the Lord's. Pope, Moral E ays, iii. 345. For dinner-which on a weekday is hardly ever eaten at the costermonger's abode-they buy "block ornaments," as they call the small, dark-coloured pieces of meat exposed on the cheap butchers' blocks or counters. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 52.