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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A covering for the hand that encases the thumb separately and the four fingers together.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A glove; a covering for the hand, with or without fingers.
  2. n. A covering for the hand, differing from a glove in not having a separate cover for each finger, the thumb only being separated, made of leather, dogskin, sealskin, etc., or knitted of thick wool.
  3. n. A mitt.
  4. To put mittens on.
  5. To give the mitten to. See phrase under mitten, n.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
  2. n. A cover for the wrist and forearm.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English myten, mitaine, from Old French mitan, miton, mitaine ("mitten", literally "half-glove") (Modern French mitaine), from Frankish *mitamo, *mittamo (“half”), superlative of *mitti (“midpoint”), from Proto-Germanic *midjô, *midjan (“middle, center”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰy- (“between, in the middle, center”). Cognate with Old High German mittamo, metemo ("half, in the middle"), Old Dutch medemest ("midmost"), Old English medeme ("middling, average, median", literally "midmost, in the middle"). More at mid, middle. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French mitaine (from mite, cat's caress, mitten, from mit, cat) and from Medieval Latin mitta, mitten (possibly from Old French mite). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. glove

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. leggings
  2. muffler
  3. muff
  1. jerkin
  2. moccasin
  3. overcoat
  1. parka
  2. sock
  3. gaiter
  1. underwear
  2. scarf
  3. sweater
  1. tippet
  2. smock
  3. jumper
  1. sweatshirt
  2. cardigan
  3. cravat

rhymes (16)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Britain
  2. Briton
  3. Britten
  1. Lytton
  2. Witten
  3. bitten
  1. fitton
  2. kitten
  3. leviton
  1. litten
  2. overwritten
  3. rewritten
  1. smitten
  2. unwritten
  3. whitten
  1. written

reverse dictionary (14)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. metayn
  2. meteyn
  1. mitaine
  2. mitten
  1. mytane
  2. mitt
  1. boxing glove
  2. glove
  1. thumb
  2. palm
  1. mittened
  2. muffler
  1. cuff
  2. muffier

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