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mien

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Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

mienn. [F. mine; perh. from sane source as mener to lead; cf. E. demean, menace, mine, n.].
     Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.  [1913 Webster]
    "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
    As, to be hated, needs but to be seen.
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mien, n. literary a person's look or bearing, as showing character or mood.

Etymology
prob. f. obs. demean f. DEMEAN(2), assim. to F mine expression

THESAURUS

mien

action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, appearance, aspect, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, brow, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, color, complexion, comportment, conduct, countenance, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, expression, exteriority, externality, externalness, extrinsicality, face, facial appearance, favor, feature, features, folkway, foreignness, garb, gestures, goings-on, guise, lineaments, lines, look, looks, maintien, manner, mannerism, manners, method, methodology, methods, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, observable behavior, openness, outerness, outward appearance, outwardness, pattern, physiognomy, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, seeming, set, shallowness, social science, stance, style, superficiality, tactics, tone, traits, turn, visage, way, way of life, ways

ROGET THESAURUS

mien

Appearance

N appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil, lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture, tableau, display, exposure, mise en sc ne, rising of the curtain, phantasm, phantom, pageant, spectacle, peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show, ombres chinoises, magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views, biograph, cinematograph, moving pictures, panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama, coup de theatre, jeu de theatre, pageantry, insignia, aspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming, shape, guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor, presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing, point of view, light, lineament feature trait lines, outline, outside, contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz, cast of countenance, profile, tournure, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy, outside, apparent, seeming, ostensible, on view, apparently, to all seeming, to all appearance, ostensibly, seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie, at the first blush, at first sight, in the eyes of, to the eye, editio princeps.


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