meiny old use , auch: meinie

Only no lord would want to spread his meiny so thinly that it could not be easily defended.

Nor was I noteworthy among my Lord's meiny.

I grew tense for it seemed to me that perhaps as many as a lord's meiny might be purposefully encircling us.

Yet Quaine was not of his meiny or kin, but stood easily as if he spoke but of pleasant weather.

For the mutable, rank-scented meiny, let them Regard me as I do not flatter, and Therein behold themselves.

"One Tamil of Lord Tugness's meiny.