mitten 
Mittened cats catch no mice. 
Proverb. 
With mittened hands, anil caps drawn low. 
Whittier, Snow-Bound. 
2. To give the mitten to. See phrase under 
mitten, n. [Colloq.] 
For me she mittened a lawyer, and several other chaps. 
Carleton, Farm Ballads, p. 19. 
mittentt (mit'ent), a. [< L. mitten(t-)s, ppr. of 
mittere, send:" see mission.'] Sending forth; 
emitting. 
The fluxion . . . thrust forth by the part mittent upon 
the inferior weak parts. Wiseman, Surgery. 
mittimus (mit'i-mus), n. [So called from the 
word beginning the writ (in L.), L. mittimus, vie 
send, Istpers. pi. pres. ind. act. of mittere, send: 
see mission,] 1. In law: (a) A precept or com- 
mand in writing, given by a justice of the peace 
or other proper officer, directed to the keeper 
of a prison, requiring him to receive and hold 
in safe-keeping an offender charged with a 
crime until he be delivered by due course of 
law; a warrant of commitment to prison. (6) 
A writ directing the removal of a suit or of a 
record from the court granting it to another. 
2. A dismissal from an office or situation. 
Out of two noblemen's houses he had his iin'ttunir* of 
"Ye may be gone." 
Nash, Haue with you to Saffron-Walden. 
Mittler's green. See green 1 . 
mitty (mit'i), it. ; pi. mitties (-iz). [Origin ob- 
scure.] The small stormy petrel, Procellaria 
pelagian. Montagu. [Local, Eng.] 
mitu (mit'u), . [Braz.] 1. The galeated cu- 
rassow, a South American bird of the family 
Cracidce, technically called Paitxi mitu, Ourax 
mitu, or Mitu galeata. See cut under Pauxi. 
2. [cap.'] [NL.] A genus of the family Cracidce, 
of which the mitu is the type. Lesson, 1831. 
Also called Mitua, Urax, Uragis, and Pauxi. 
Mitua (mit'u-a), n. [NL., < mitu, q. v.] 1. 
Same as Mitu" 2. H. E. Strickland, 1841. 2. 
In entom., a genus of coleopterous insects. 
mituporanga (mit"u-po-rang'ga), . [Braz.] 
1. The hocco, curassow, or cura9ao-bird, Crax 
alector, and some related species of Cracinw. 
2. [cap.] [NL.] A genus of curassows, of the 
family Cracidce, the type of which is Crax globi- 
eera or Mitu, daubentoni. Reiclienbach. 
mity (mi'ti), a. [< mite* + -y 1 .] Having mites ; 
abounding with mites : as, mity cheese. 
Cheese is a mity elf, 
Digesting all things but itself. 
Proverbial rime. 
miurus (mi-u'rus), n. [LL. miurus, miuros, < 
Gr. fieiovpof, sc. or/^of, a shortened verse, lit. 
curtailed, < peiuv, less, + ovpa, tail.] A dac- 
tylic hexameter with the thesis or first syllable 
of the last foot short or apparently short; a 
hexameter irregularly terminating in an iambus 
(^- ) or a pyrrhic (^ ) instead of a spondee 
( ) or trochee (--"). See dolichurus. Also 
meiurus. 
mix 1 (miks), v. [< ME. mixen, transposed from 
*misken (as ax 3 for ask 1 ), < AS. miscian = MLG. 
mischen = OHG. miskan, misken, MHG. G. mis- 
chen = W. mysgu = Gael, measg = OBulg. mic- 
shati = Serv. mijeshati = Bohem. misheti = Pol. 
mieaziic = Euss. mieshati, mix ; also, OBulg. mie- 
shiti = Serv. mijesiti = Bohem. misiti = Pol. mie- 
sic = Buss, miesiti, knead, in OBulg. and Bohem. 
also mix ; = L. miscere (pp. mistus, mixtus) = Gr. 
piayeiv, mix; cf. Skt. micra, mixed; with orig. 
formative -sk, < Teut. / mik, Indo-Eur. / mig, 
as in Gr. fiiyviwa/, [iiyfjvai, mix. The Teut. forms 
are prob. native, as the appar. deriv. mash 1 in- 
dicates ; but they have prob. been influenced 
by the L., to which also the Celtic forms may 
be referred, and to which most of the E. 
words associated with mix are due, namely 
mixtion, mistion, mixture, etc., admix, commix, 
etc. From the L. miscere are also derived mas- 
lin 1 , masliift, mastiff, messin.'] I. trans. 1. To 
unite or blend promiscuously into one mass, 
body, or assemblage, as two or more substances, 
parts, or quantities; mingle intimately or in- 
discriminately: as, to mix different kinds of 
wine; to mix flour and water; herds insepara- 
bly mixed. 
His life was gentle, and the elements 
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world "This was a man !" 
Shak., 3. C., v. 6. 74. 
2. To cause to unite or blend, as one object or 
quantity with another or others; bring into 
close combination or association with another 
or others. 
3806 
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. 
HOB. vii. i 
You mix your sadness with some fear. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 2. 46. 
3. To fo I'm by mingling; produce by blending 
different ingredients: as, to mix bread. 
Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife, 
No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, 
But "banished" to kill me? "banished"? 
Shak., B, and J., iii. 3. 44. 
That Psyche, wont to bind my throbbing brow, 
To smooth my pillow, mix the foaming draught 
Of fever. Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
To mix up. (a) To confuse ; entangle mentally, (b) To 
involve; implicate. [Colloq. in both senses.] 
Years and years after Charles Albert's death, there came 
back to Turin an Italian exile, who in his hot youth had 
been mixed up, very much against the grain, in an abortive 
plot for the assassination of the late King. 
E. Dicey, Victor Emmanuel, p. 53. 
=Syn. 1. Blend, etc. (see mingle), combine, compound, in- 
corporate. See mixture. 
II. intrans. 1. To become united or blended 
promiscuously ; come together in intimate com- 
bination or close union : as, oil and water will 
not mix. 
When Souls mix 'tis an Happiness. 
Cowley, The Mistress, Platonick Love. 
The clear water was not mixing with the blue. 
Froude, Sketches, p. 96. 
2. To be joined or associated ; become a part 
(of) ; become an ingredient or element (in) : 
as, to mix with the multitude, or to mix in so- 
ciety. 
I will 7nto: with you in industry 
To please. 
B. Jonton, Every Man out of his Humour, Ind. 
Some, who turn their travels to the greatest advantage, 
endeavour to mix with the people of the country. 
Pocoeke, Description of the East, II. ii. 277. 
mix 1 (miks), . [< mix 1 , v.~] A mixture ; a jum- 
ble; a blunder; a mess. [Colloq.] 
She'll show the note to Miss Greenway, and you'll be 
ruined. Oh, poor Mr. Welling ! Oh, what a fatal, fatal 
mix! W. D. Howetts, A Likely Story, iii. 
(miks), w. [Also dial, mux ; < ME. mix, 
mcx, < AS. meox (dat. meoxe, mixe, myxe) = Fries. 
miux, miuhs, muck, dung ; akin to muck 1 and to 
forms cited under mist*. Hence mixen."] 1. 
Dung; muck. [Prov. Eng.] 2f. A vile wretch. 
The quene his moder on a time as a mix thoust 
How faire & how fetis it was. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 125. 
Messenger to this myx, for mendemente of the pople, 
To niele with this Minister mane, that here this luounte 
aeinez. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. B.\ 1. 989. 
mix 2 (miks), v. t. [< mix 2 , . Cf. muck 1 , i:] 
To clean out. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
mixable (mik'sa-bl), a. [<mixl + -able.] Ca- 
pable of being mixed; miscible. Also mixible. 
mixed 1 (mikst), p. a. 1. Consisting of different 
elements or parts; mingled: as, a mixed feeling 
of pleasure and grief. 
The gouernement in that time of Moses was mixt, the 
Monarchic being in Moses. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. HO. 
2. Promiscuous ; indiscriminate ; not comprised 
in one class or kind. 
A mixed multitude went up also with them. Ex. xii. 38. 
Will shines in mixed company, where he has the discre- 
tion not to go out of his depth. 
Addison, The Man of the Town. 
In Anne's reign it was used as a coffee-house, but it no 
longer was extremely fashionable, as the company was 
very mixed. 
Aihton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 149. 
3. Confused; befogged mentally. [Colloq.] 
Also spelled mixt. 
Mixed actions, in law. See action, 8. Mixed beauty, 
cadence, chalice, etc. See the nouns. Mixed canon, 
in music, a canon for more than two voice-parts in which 
the intervals of pitch between the successive voices are 
not the same. Mixed chorus, quartette, voices, in 
music, male and female voices combined. Mixed cog- 
nition, concomitant, equation, fabric. See the 
nouns. Mixed fish, fish of various kinds, including soft 
fish and hard fish. Jftfner. Mixed greens. Heegreeni. 
Mixed laws, those which concern both person and 
property. Mixed metaphor, meter, etc. See the 
nouns. Mixed mode, (a) In music. See maneria. (b) 
pi. In metaph. See model. Mixed nuisance, number, 
olive, power, proof. See the nouns. Mixed ques- 
tions, questions which arise from the conflict of foreign 
and domestic laws. Mixed ratio or proportion, one in 
which the sum of the antecedent and consequent is com- 
pared with the difference of the antecedent and conse- 
quent. Thus, if a : b : : c : d, then by mixed proportion 
a + b:a b::c + d:e- d. Mixed subjects of 
property, such as fall within the definition of things real, 
but which nevertheless are attended with some of the 
legal qualities of things personal, or vice versa. Mixed 
train, a railway-train combining both passenger-cars and 
freight-cars. Mixed voyage, a voyage for both whaling 
and sealing. Mixed yarn. See yarn. 
mixed 2 !, a. [ME., < mix* + -ed 2 .] Filthy ; vile. 
That fule traytour, that mixed cherl. Havelok, 1. 2533. 
Mixolydian 
mixedly (mik'sed-li or mikst'li), adv. In a 
mixed manner. 
Not to proceed precisely, or merely according to the 
laws and customs either of England or Scotland, but mixtly. 
Bacon, Union of England and Scotland. 
mixell, mixel, . See mij.ii ill. Levins; Huloet. 
mixen (mik'sn), n. [Also mixon, dial, muxen; < 
ME. mixen, < AS. myxen, mixen, micxscn,meoxen, 
a dunghill, dung; orig. adj., 'of dung,'< meox, 
dung: see mix'* and -en' A . Cf. midding, which 
is remotely related.] 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 gardeners now 
To pick the faded creature Iflshl from the pool, 
And cast it on the mixen that it die. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
mixen-cartt (mik'sn-kart), n. A dung-cart. 
Mir. for Mags. (Hattiwell.) 
mixer (mik'ser), . 1. One who or that which 
mixes or mingles. 
To the sewers and sinks 
With all such drinks, 
And after them tumble the mixer. 
Longfellow, Catawba Wine. 
2. Specifically, a machine for mixing various 
substances. See malaxator. 
mixhill (miks'hil), n. [Also dial, contracted 
mixell, mixel; < mix 2 + hill 1 .'] A dunghill. 
(Irose. [Prov. Eng.] 
mixible (mik'si-bl), a. [< mix 1 + -ible. Cf. mixa- 
ble and miscible.] Same as mixable. 
mixing (mik'sing), n. [Verbal n. of mix 1 , r.] 
The act of mingling or compounding two or 
more ingredients into one body, mass, or com- 
pound; mixture. 
mixing-machine (mik'sing-ma-shen"), n. 1. A 
machine for mixing or compounding. The usual 
form is some adaptation of the Chilian mill with revolving 
pan and fixed mullers, scrapers, and stirrers for mixing 
drugs, fertilizers, paints, etc. 
2. A hollow copper cylinder used in mixing the 
materials for gunpowder. 
mixing-sieve (mik'sing-siv), . A sieve for 
combining ingredients intimately by sifting 
them together. 
mixiont, n. [< mix 1 + -ion. Cf. mixtion, mis- 
tion.'] Same as mixtion. 
mixite (mik'sit), n. [After A. Mixa, commis- 
sioner of mines in Bohemia.] In mineral., a 
hydrous arseniate of bismuth and copper oc- 
curring in capillary crystals of a bluish-green 
color. It was first found at Joachimsthal in 
Bohemia, and later in Utah, United States. 
mixobarbaric (mik'so-bar-bar'ik), a. [< Gr. 
/ufofSdpffapoc, half -barbarous, <.[uS-o-, a combining 
form of fuyvvvai, mix ( > fu^if, Attic /jei^if, a mix- 
ing), + fiapfiapof, barbarous: see barbarous.] 
Not purely barbaric; showing more or less in- 
fluence of civilized or refined types ; noting 
some working of civilization, or culture, or art 
amid barbarism. 
All the barbaric and mixo-barbaric coinages imitated 
from Greek prototypes beyond the pillars of Hercules on 
the west and as far as the Indus on the east. 
C. T. Newton, Art and Archseol., p. 413. 
Mixodectes (mik-so-dek'tez), n. [NL., < Gr. 
fa^o-, mixed, + ir/KTr/f, a biter, biting, < Sdnveiv, 
bite.] The typical genus of the family Mixo- 
dectida!, with very large incisor teeth and the 
last lower premolar single-cusped. M. gracilis 
and M. punt/ens are examples. 
Mixodectidae (mik-so-dek'ti-de), n. pi. [NL., 
< Mixodectes + -idee.] A family of extinct 
Eocene mammals, having the dental formula 
of the existing lemurs, and in some respects 
approaching the Daubentoniidce. There are sev- 
eral genera, as Mixodectes and Necrolemur, of 
North America and Europe. See cut at Jfecro- 
lemur. 
mixogamous (mik-sog'a-mus), a. [< Gr. /iifo-, 
mixed, + yafiof, marriage.] In icJith., charac- 
terized by or pertaining to mixogamy. 
The majority of Teleostei are mixogamvua that is, the 
males and females congregate on the spawning beds, and, 
the number of the former being in excess, several males 
attend to the same female, frequently changing from one 
female to another. Oiinther, Study of Fishes, p. 177. 
mixogamy (mik-sog'a-mi), H. [As mixogam- 
ous T -y.J In iclith., congregation in unequal 
numbers of male and female fishes in spawn- 
ing-time, the males being in excess and several 
males attending one female for a time and 
then changing for another. 
Mixolydian (mik-so-lid'i-an), a. [< Gr. fu%o- 
?.i'<5(of, half-Lydian; as a noun, sc. rovof or 
apfiovia, the Mixolydian mode; < /?o-, mixed, 
+ A('d<of, Lydian : see Lydian.] See under 
mode 1 . 
