mizen
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English myxen, from Old English mixen.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mizen
References[edit]
- 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