mizen
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English
Noun
mizen (plural mizens)
- Alternative spelling of mizzen
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- But presently, catching hold of the mizen shrouds, he swings himself to the deck, and in an even, unexhilarated voice, saying, "Dinner, Mr. Starbuck," disappears into the cabin.
Anagrams
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English myxen, from Old English mixen.
Pronunciation
Noun
mizen
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57