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meaning in which Gaston de Foix uses the word menée 

 is explained by him : Et puis se metre après, et chevauchier 

 menée : c^est à dire par oil les chiens et le cerf vont (G. de 

 F., pp. 43, 44, 171, 179). See also Chace dou Cerf B.nd 

 Hard, de Font. Guer. Edit. Pichon). 



2. The challenge of the hound when on the line. 

 Page 171, we read that a hunter should know whether 

 the hounds have retrieved their stag by the doubling of 

 their menée, i.e. the hounds would make more noise as 

 soon as they found the scent or line of flight of the stag 

 they were chasing. Menée evidently meant the sound 

 made by the hound when actually following the scent, 

 not when baying the game. Later the sense seems to 

 have been widened, and a musical hound was said to have 

 la menée belle (Salnove, p. 246). 



3. A note sounded on a horn [see Appendix : Hunting 

 Music). It was the signal that the deer was in full 

 flight. It appears to be used in Twici to signify the 

 horn-signal blown when the hounds are on the scent of 

 hart, boar or wolf, to press the hounds onwards (Twici, 

 p. 23). This author says one cannot blow the menée 

 for the hare, because it is at one time female and another 

 male, and to this Dryden in his notes remarks that 

 Twici is perfectly right in saying a man ought not to 

 blow the menée for a hare ; for as every one knows, it 

 is but a rare occurrence for a hare to go straight on end 

 like a fox, for they commonly double and run rings, in 

 which case if the hounds were pressed, they would over- 

 run the scent and probably lose the hare. But he does 

 not explain why Twici says if it were always male the 

 menée could be blown at it as at other beasts, such as 

 the hart, the boar, and the wolf. Is it that a male hare 

 will occasionally run a long, straight course of several 

 miles, but that the female runs smaller rings and more 

 constantly retraces her steps, and therefore the menée 

 could never be blown at her ? 



4. Menée was also used in the sense of a signal on a 

 horn. 



