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▪ I. missel|ˈmɪsəl|
Forms: 1, 5 mistel, (1, 3 -il), 6 mistle, miscel, 6–7 missel(l, 7 mis(c)le, missle.
[OE. mistel, (1) basil, (2) mistletoe, distinguished in the Leechdoms as eorþmistel and ácmistel respectively: corresp. to OHG. mistil (MHG., G. mistel) mistletoe, early mod.Du. mistel ‘viscum’ (Kilian), ‘glew’ (Hexham), ON. only in comb. mistilteinn mistletoe (the Sw. and Da. mistel are prob. from LG.): of unascertained origin.]
†1. Mistletoe. Obs.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) V 185 Viscus, mistel. c825Epinal Gloss. 1083 Viscus, mistil. c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 192/1 [Viscus] g⊇. wy de chene, a. mistel. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 164 b, Of the Missel or Misselto tre. 1566Withals Dict. 22 b, Mistle, whiche groweth vpon aple trees and crabbe trees in a great numbre of white or yelow beries. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 33 Giue sheepe to their fees the mistle of trees. 1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick i. xxiv. (1639) 41 Miscle of the Oke. 1670Swan Spec. M. 246 Missel or Misselto, groweth.. upon trees.
†b. attrib., as missel-berry, missel-birdlime, missel-child.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 165 The thurse..shiteth out the *miscel berries. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 123 The Quincunciall Specks on the top of the Miscle-berry.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 164 b, The best *missel byrde lyme is freshe resemblinge a leke in Color within. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 40 Missel birdlime, hath power to soften and ripen apostumes with rosin and wax.
1608Sir H. Platt Gard. Eden (1653) 86 There you shall finde an Oake with Mistletoe therein, at the root whereof there is a *missell⁓child, whereof many strange things are conceived.
†2. Basil, Calamintha Clinopodium. Obs.
c1000Sax. Lechd. I. 232 Ᵹenim þas wyrte þe man ocimum & oðrum naman mistel nemneþ. Ibid. II. 86 Eorð mistel. 12..MS. Bodl. 130 lf. 54 b, Mistil. Ocimum.
3. Short for missel-bird, missel-thrush.
1845New Statist. Acc. Scotl. XIV. (Ross & Cromarty) 189 The missel, blackbird,..and throstle are common. 1882Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. No. 3. 554 The Missels were fewer than usual.
▪ II. missel
variant of mesel a.
14..Iter Camerar. xx. in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 582 Quhen thay opin fish, thay luke not gif thay be missel fish, or not [cf. mesel a. b, quot. a 1400].
▪ III. missel
obs. Sc. form of mizzle. |