mire2+ (mir)

[ G. miere ), an ant; cf. Ir. moirbh, W. mor ( -grugyn ) = Corn. Serv. mrav = murri an (pl.); OBulg. mravija = Pol . mrowka = Bohem. mravenec = Ru . mu- raveἴ ; Gr. μύρμηξ, μύρμος; L. formica (?) (> F. fourmi); Pers. mür , Zend maori , ant; an an- cient Indo-Eur. designation of the insect, su- perseded in E. by the merely Teut. ant .] An ant. See pismire . mire3t (mir), v. i. [ mirari , wonder: see admire, mirror.] To wonder; admire. He myred what course may be warelye taken. Stan i hurst , Æneid, ii. 292. Mire court lace. See lace . mire-crow (mir'kro), n. The sea-crow, laugh- ing-gull, or pewit-gull. [Local, Eng.] mire-drum (mir'drum), n. [In earlier form mire- drumble , q. v.; so called from its cry, and from haunting miry places.) A bittern. mire-drumblet (mir'drum"bl), n. [Early mod. E. myredromble , myre - drombylle , -dromylle , -drommylle , -drumnyl ; mire + drumble .] Same as mire - drum . Ulula is a byrde of the quantyte of a crowe sprong wyth speckes and pytchyth hys bylle in to a myre place and makyth a grete sowne and noyse, and herby it semyth that IMG:content-0696.png:[blocks in formation] An obsolete form of myriad . Miridæ (mir'i-dē), n. pl . [NL. (Douglas and Scott, 1865), . ] A family of heteropterous insects of the section Caps in a , containing Miris and two other genera, and of wide distribution. The body is linear-elongate with subparallel sides, the head horizontal, clypeus very convex, pronotum trapezoidal, femora sometimes tufted beneath, and antennæ of variable length. mirifict (mi-rif'ik), a. [F. mirifique = Sp. mi rífico = Pg. It. mirifico, More numerous, wonder-working, and mirific . Urquhart , tr. of Rabelais, iii. 4. ( Davies .) mirific alt (mi-rif'i-kal), a . [ mirific + -al.] Same as mirific . mirific ent (mi-rif'i-sent), a. [ Enchantment Agrippa defines to be nothing but the conveyance of a certain mirific ent power into the thing enchanted. Dr. H. More , Mystery of Iniquity, I. xviii. § 3. [( Encyc . Dict . ) IMG:content-0697.png:[blocks in formation]