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. The "Master of Game" says the _menées_ should be sounded on the return of the huntsman at the hall or cellar door (p. 179). There was a curious old custom which occasioned the blowing of the horn in Westminster Abbey. Two _menées_ were blown at the high altar of the Abbey on the delivery there of eight fallow deer which Henry III. had by charter granted as a yearly gift to the Abbot of Westminster and his successors. METYNGE, here evidently means meating or feeding. As the "Master of Game" says: "or pasturing" as if the two words were synonymous, as _metinge_ also was Mid. Eng. for _measure_, it might have been a deer of "high measure and pasturing." But anyhow the two were practically identical, for as Twici says: "Harts which are of good pasture. For the head grows according to the pasture; good or otherwise." See below: MEUTE. MEUTE had several meanings in Old French venery. 1. The "Master of Game" translated G. de F.'s "grant cerf" as a hart of high feeding or pasture. But he omitted to render the following passage: "_Et s'il est de bonne meute, allons le laisser courre._" The "_bonne meute_" is not translated by "high meating." It was an expression in use to indicate whether the stag was in good company or not. If a warrantable stag was accompanied by one or two large stags he was termed "_Un cerf de bonne mute_" (or _meute_), but if hinds and young stags (rascal) were with him he was designated as a "_cerf de mauvaise mute_." In Roy Modus we read: "_La première est de savoir s'il est de bonne mute._" Perhaps _meute_ when used in this sense was derived from the old Norman word _moeta_, _m[=a][=e]ta_, from _m[=o]t_, meet, come together. There was also an Old Eng. word _metta_ or _gemetta,_ companion.