mixen

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“
Close by the door stood the mixen, a collection of every abomination--streams from which, in rainy weather, fertilized the lower meadows, generally the lord's pasture, and polluted the stream.

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  1. A dunghill; a laystall. [Obsolete or archaic.] Hooly writ nat have been defouled, na moore than the sonne that shyneth on the mixne. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. Charge the gardener now To pick the faded creature [fish] from the pool, And cast it on the mixen that it die. Tennyson, Geraint.

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  1. Also mixon, dial. muxen; from Middle English mixen, from Anglo-Saxon myxen, mixen, micxsen, meoxen, a dunghill, dung; orig. adjective, ‘of dung,’ from meox, dung: see mix and -en. Cf. midding, which is remotely related.
 

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