MÆNA
sagnorð
i. e. mœna, d, to provide with a mænir, to roof; leka möndi húsit ef ekki mœndi smiðrinn, Skálda (Thorodd) 163, D. N. v. 637.
2. to reach or jut out, project, Lat. eminere; þeir sáu hrauka … ok mændu upp ór kollarnir (viz. out of the fog), Sturl. i. 179; mændu þeir aptr (they turned back, prob. erroneous = vendu) en Hákon bar í haf, Fms. vi. 249.
II. to gaze, look (stretching out the neck), esp. with the notion of supplication; mæna á e-n. mæna vonar-augum, freq. in mod. usage, where the ancients said kaga, q. v.