miriness

[Eng. miry; -ne .) The quality or state of being miry; dirtine , muddine . mi-ri-quid-ite, s. [Named after the old Miriquidi Forest, Saxon Erzgebirge; suff. -ite ( Min.); Ger. miri quid it .] Min .: A rhombohedral mineral, occurring in very minute crystals, and sometimes ma ive. Color of crystals, blackish-brown; of ma ive varieties, yel lowish to reddish-brown; streak, ocher-yellow; luster, vitreous: brittle; hardne , 4.0. Contains arsenic and phosphoric acids, sesquioxide of iron, protoxide of lead, and water. Found at Schneeberg, Saxony, a ociated with various other minerals. mirk, mürk, *merke, *mirke, a. & s. [A. S. murc, mirce, myrce; Icel. myrkr; Dan. & Sw. mork =murky (q. v.).] A. As adj .: Dark, murky, gloomy. Pit - mirk : A corruption of pitch - mirk =as dark as pitch. "It's pit- mirk ; but there's no an ill turn on the road." -Scott: Guy Manner ing, xi. B. As subst.: Darkne , gloom. mirk-i-ne , s . [English mirky ; -ne .) Darkne , gloomine , gloom. *mirk-some, *mirke-some, adj . [Eng. mirk ; -some.] Dark, gloomy, darksome, murky. fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fåll, IMG:content-1252.png:[blocks in formation] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Lit .: A looking-gla , a speculum; any gla or polished substance which forms images by the reflection of the rays of light. Among the ancients, mirrors were made of various metals, as bronze, steel, silver, . Mirrors of polished metal are now called specula. [SPECULUM. The date of the invention of gla mirrors is not certainly known. From the account of Pliny, it would seem that they had been formerly made at the celebrated gla -houses of Sidon. The method of coating with tinfoil was known as early as the sixteenth century, at Murano, where it was first practiced. Mirrors are either plane, concave, or convex. Plane mirrors represent objects of their natural size; concave mirrors, or those having a hollow surface, collect the rays, reflecting them to a focus in front of the mirror, and consequently enlarge the image of the object; convex mirrors disperse the rays, and therefore diminish the size of the image of the object. "In her hand she held a mirrour bright, Wherein her face she often viewed fayre." Spenser: F. Q., I. iv. 10. 2. Fig .: That on which we ought to fix our eyes; that which presents a true image or representation; a pattern, an example, an exemplar, a model. "Mirror of faith, rever'd and mourn'd!" Pope: Homer's Ody ey, iv. 229. II. Arch .: A small oval ornament cut into deep moldings, and separated by wreaths of flowers. *mirror-stone, s. A stone which reflects as a mirror; a kind of transparent stone. mir-rõr, v. t. (MIRROR, 8.] misaffirm mis-, pref . [See def.] A common prefix to Englisn words, and having the force of wrong, defect, negation, failure, . It has two origins: 1. English and Scand in avian A. S. mis-; Dut., Dan., & Icel. mis- ; Sw. mi -; Ger. mi -; Goth. mi a : as in misdeed, mistake. 2. French, from Latin; the proper old spelling was mes-, as in O. Fr. meschief=mischief, from Lat. minus =le .