These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
Shak.
Syn. -- Memory, Remembrance, Recollection, Reminiscence. Memory is the
generic term, denoting the power by which we reproduce past
impressions. Remembrance is an exercise of that power when things occur
spontaneously to our thoughts. In recollection we make a distinct
effort to collect again, or call back, what we know has been formerly
in the mind. Reminiscence is intermediate between remembrance and
recollection, being a conscious process of recalling past occurrences,
but without that full and varied reference to particular things which
characterizes recollection. "When an idea again recurs without the
operation of the like object on the external sensory, it is
remembrance; if it be sought after by the mind, and with pain and
endeavor found, and brought again into view, it is recollection."
Locke.
To draw to memory, to put on record; to record. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gower.
Mem"phi*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Memphis in
Egypt; hence, Egyptian; as, Memphian darkness.
Men (?), n., pl. of Man.
Men, pron. [OE. me, men. "Not the plural of man, but a weakened form of
the word man itself." Skeat.] A man; one; -- used with a verb in the
singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.
[Obs.] Piers Plowman.
Men moot give silver to the poure friars.
Chaucer.
A privy thief, men clepeth death.
Chaucer.
Me*nac"can*ite (?), n. [From Menaccan, in Cornwall, where it was first
found.] (Min.) An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly
of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs
also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and
ilmenite.
Men"ace (mn"s; 48), n. [F., fr. L. minaciae threats, menaces, fr.
minax, - acis, projecting, threatening, minae projecting points or
pinnacles, threats. Cf. Amenable, Demean, Imminent, Minatory.] The show
of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of
a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces.
Milman.
The dark menace of the distant war.
Dryden.
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Men"ace (mn"s; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Menaced (st); p. pr. & vb. n.
Menacing (?).] [OF. menacier, F. menacer. See Menace, n.] 1. To express
or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of
inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by
with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.
My master . . . did menace me with death.
Shak.