Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Men

Men (men) , noun

plural of Man.

Men , pronoun

[Old English me, men. “Not the plural of man, but a weakened form of the word man itself.” Skeat.]

A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they. [Obsolete]
Not the plural of man, but a weakened form of the word man itself. — Piers Plowman
Men moot give silver to the poure friars. — Chaucer
A privy thief, men clepeth death. — Chaucer