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- noun Alternative spelling of
mistletoe .
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Examples
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The time for mistle-toe, too much or not enough snow, and helter-skelter parents attempting to corral their children's their greedy little impulses.
Olive, the other reindeer justnick 2003
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Siegfried, the mistle-toe which wounded Balder, and the poisoned nail of the demon in _Surya Bai_.
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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Again the white-robed Druids filed past me, again I saw that improbable mistle-toe cut from that impossible oak, and again cold chills ran down my back with the first strain of the recitative.
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"They were talking about mistle-toe boughs, and all sorts of old-country customs; and then they said what a funny time they had one Christmas, with the youngest, about the _mizzle_, as he called it: do you remember, ma? do you understand?"
Fairy Book Sophie May 1869
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