Definitions for mense

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Spelling: [mens]
IPA: /mɛns/

Mense is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in mense (eemns).

Definitions for mense

noun

  1. propriety; discretion.

verb (used with object)

  1. to adorn; bring honor to; grace.

Origin of mense

1490-1500; variant (north) of mensk, Middle English menske courtesy, honor Old Norse menska humanity, cognate with Old English menniscu literally, the human state; akin to Examples for mense

mense′ful, decorous: respectable; mense′less, graceless, uncivil.

(from whose work I take the extract), the following passage occurs, under the head "mense Januario."

An idle taistrill is t' sparrow, wi' nowther sense nor mense in his head.

In mense's Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten, i, p. 263-283, pls.

In October, 1181, three Consuls preside "super facto iustitiae, nominatim in mense octobris."

They's not nice gemmans at all to s'pect little folkses like us to carry such a drefful 'mense, 'normous, big box same as this.

Word Value for mense
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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