missel

The people of Hampshire and Sussex call the missel-bird the storm-cock, because it sings early in the spring in blowing, showery weather; its song often commences with the year: with us it builds much in orchards.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

There are also the crocus, the missel thrush, the cuckoo, the blackthorn, etc.

george orwell | some thoughts on the common toad « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Do you suppose he's forgotten the Cuban missel crisis when soviet nuclear weapons were pointed at us only 90 miles from our shore?

Hagel criticizes McCain over Iran comments 2008

Notes and comments on missel defense treasties, rules of engagement, stuuf like that.

Firedoglake » Safavian Found Guilty 2006

One of them was a noble bird, such as I never had seen before, of very fine bright plumage, and larger than a missel-thrush.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Then hand in hand they soberly left the quiet resting-place, the missel-thrush peering out of its bold eye at their retreating figures.

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell

He devours the berries eagerly, and soils, or "missels" his feet with their viscid seeds, conveying them thus from tree to tree, and getting thence the name of missel thrush.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

_ A bird which builds chiefly in apple - trees; I believe it is the _Turdus viscivorus, _ or missel.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

In size it is not much larger than a missel thrush.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

The kingfisher darts along like an arrow; fern-owls, or goat-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor; starlings, as it were, swim along, while missel-thrushes use a wild and desultory flight; swallows sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by rapid turns and quick evolutions; swifts dash round in circles; and the bank-martin moves with frequent vacillations, like a butterfly.

MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous