Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
mizzen .
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Examples
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If I'm baan to find salvation I'll find it misen. '
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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After I'd mashed misen a cup o 'tea I felt better, and got agate wi' the housewark.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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So I sat misen down on a stool and glowered into the fire, and wrastled wi 'the deevil same as Jacob wrastled wi' the angel.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Shoo gav me a sup o 'poddish for my supper, an' all t 'time I were eytin' it I kept thinkin 'o' t 'fried ham that I'd missed, an' I were fair mad wi 'misen.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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So at last, when I'd fmished my milking i 'the mistal, I got him to bed, and then I sat misen down by the fire and had a reet good roar.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Jerry and the childer their tea, but I wouldn't sit down wi ''em misen, but kept going to the windey to see if Mike and Amos were coming wi' the stirks.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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So I reckoned I'd just sit down for a bit on t 'bench I'd made an' rest misen.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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And when I thought about it, it didn't flay me like it used to do; for I said to misen, 'I'll keep Owd Jerry alive ovver next St Mark's Day, choose how.'
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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But I drave a pin into my arm to rouse misen, and took the besom and swept up the ashes and lit the fire.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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So Amos set off about half-past two, and, efter I'd weshed up and sided away I sat misen down i 'the ingle-nook and mended the stockings.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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