mizzen (mizn)

[Also mizen; early mod. E. mizen, misen, mi on, my on, me is seine, meson; They hoist their sailes, both top and top, The me is seine and all was tride-a. John Dory (Child's Ballads, VIII. 195). The mizen is a large sail of an oblong figure extended upon the mizen-mast. Falconer , Shipwreck, ii., note 6. To bagpipe the mizzen. See bagpipe . mizzenmast (miz'n-måst or -mast), n. The mast that supports the mizzen; the aftermost mast of a three-masted ve el. mizzen-rigging (miz'n-rig"ing), n. The rigging connected with the mizzenmast; the shrouds of the mizzenmast. IMG:content-0792.png:[blocks in formation] There came many small botes with my on sayles to goe for Chio. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 100. mizzle1 (miz'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. mizzled, ppr. mizzling. [Formerly also misle, misel, mistle; As misling drops hard flints in time doth pearse. G. Whetstone, A Remembrance of Gas coigne. Now gynnes to mizzle , hye we homeward fast. Spenser, Shep. Cal., November. Another mizzling, drizzling day! Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 397. French mixture. See French. - Griffith's mixture, mizzle1 (miz'l), n. [ mizzling. [Formerly also mizzel; origin ob See isomorphous group , under isomorphous . - Mechanical scure.) I. in trans. 1. To succumb; yield; Mniotilta hence, sometimes, to become tipsy. Hall i well. -2. To disappear suddenly; decamp; run off. [Slang.] Cut your stick, sir - come, mizzle ! be off with you!-go! Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 199. See here, Paul; if you keep him on here long he won't stand it-he'll mizzle out. C. F. Woolson, Jupiter Lights, xiv. II. trans. To overcome; confuse; entangle mentally. Then their bodies being satisfied, and their heades prettily mizzeled with wine, they walke abroad for a time, or els conferre with their familiars. Stubbes , Anatomie of Abuses (1595), p. 57. mizzled (miz'ld), a. [A dial. var. of measled . ] Spotted; having different colors. [Scotch.] mizzling (miz'ling), n. [Formerly also misling ; early mod. E. miseling ( myselyng ); verbal n. of mizzlel, v.] A thick mist or fine rain; a mist. My doctrine droppe as doeth ye rayne, and my speach flow as doeth the dew, and as the myselyng vpon the herbes, and as the droppes vpon the gra e. Bible of 1551, Deut. xxxii. 2. mizzly (miz'li), a . [Formerly also misly ; zlel +-y1.] Misty; drizzly. The thick driving flakes throw a brownish mizzly shade over all things. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 17. mizzy (miz'i), n .; pl. mizzies (-iz). [A var. of meese, or of the related mo 2 : see mo 2.] A bog or quagmire. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] M. L. An abbreviation of Middle Latin or Medi eral Latin . MM. An abbreviation (in French) of Me ieurs (gentlemen, sirs). mm. An abbreviation of millimeter. M. M. An abbreviation of Maelzel's metronome. See metronome. Mme. A contraction of Madame . Mn. In chem., the symbol for manganese . mnemonic (ne-mon'ik), a . and n. [= F. mné- monique = Sp. mnemónico = Pg. It. mnemonico , mnemonic us , μνημονικός , belonging to memory, μνήμων ( μνημον- ), mindful, μνᾶσθαι , remember: see mind1 .] I. a . Pertaining to memory; especially, a isting or intended to a ist the memory: as, mnemonic words; mne- monic lines. II. n. Same as mnemonics . Mere proce es and a sterile mnemonic . Fitch , Lectures on Teaching, p. 24. mnemonical (nē-mon'i-kal), a . [ -al .] Same as mnemonic . Boyle , Works, VI. 326. mnemonic i an (nē-mō-nish'an), n. [ mnemonic + -ian .] One who is skilled in mnemonics; specifically, a teacher or profe or of mnemonics.