miredrum, miredrombylle, myredrommylle, myredromble

The bittern, from its note, and habit of frequenting miry places. mire (1), v. t. & i. [MIRE, 8.] A. Transitive : 1. To plunge, set, or stick fast in mire; as, A horse or cart is mired when it has sunk so deep in the mud that it cannot be moved. *2. To stain or soil with any foul matter. ( Lit. & Fig .) "Her palfrey's flanks were mired and bathed in sweat." Matthew Arnold: Tristram and Iseult, iii. *B. In trans.: To sink in mud; to sink so deep as to be unable to move. *mire (2), s . [A. S. mire; Da. myre; Icel. maur; Ger. miere an ant.] An ant; a pismire (q. v.). *mïre (2), *myre, v. i. [Lat. mir or .] To wonder. "He myred what course may be warelye taken." Stanyhurst: Virgil's Æneid, iv. 292. Mir-făck, s . [Corrupted Arabic.] Astron.: A fixed star, Alpha Persei. mi-rif-ic, mi-rif-ic-al, adj . [Lat. mirific us , from mir us =wonderful, and facio to do.] Performing or working wonders; wonderful. "More numerous, wonder-working, and mirific ."Urquhart: Rabelais , bk. iii., ch. iv. *mi-rif-1-çent, a. [Lat. mir us wonderful, and faciens , pr. par. of facio =to do, to make.] Wonder working; causing wonder; wonderful. "Enchantment Agrippa defines to be nothing but the conveyance of a certain mirific ent power into the thing enchanted.-H. More: Mystery of Iniquity.