mildewn.

Brit.

/ˈmɪldjuː/,

/ˈmɪldʒuː/, U.S.

/ˈmɪlˌd(j)u/

Forms: Old English meledeaw, Old English mildeaw, Middle English mildeu, Middle English–1500s myldew, Middle English–1500s myldewe, Middle English–1600s meldewe, Middle English–1700s (1900s– English regional (Herefordshire)) meldew, Middle English– mildew, 1500s mildeawe, 1500s milldewe, 1500s myldeawe, 1500s–1600s mildewe, 1600s mieldew, 1600s–1700s milldew, 1700s mealy-dew.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Saxon milidou (Middle Low German mēldouw , mēldouwe ), Old High German militou (Middle High German miltou , German regional (Bavaria) Miltau , German Meltau honeydew, Mehltau mildew), probably < the Germanic base of Gothic miliþ honey (see mell n.²) + the Germanic base of dew n.If the assumption is correct that the first element of the word is cognate with Gothic miliþ , the word probably originally denoted the sweet, sticky substance on plants caused by greenfly, subsequently coming to be used more widely of other substances that coat the leaves of diseased plants; application to the white, powdery leaf-coating caused by certain fungal infestations may have led in continental Germanic languages to reanalysis of the first element as showing the reflex of the Germanic base of meal n.¹ (the two forms being distinguished in modern German as Meltau honeydew and Mehltau mildew). Dutch meeldauw (1778), Swedish mjöldagg (1731), Danish meldugg , Norwegian mjøldogg , (Bokmål) meldogg are later formations after German Mehltau or Middle Low German mēldouw, mēldouwe. English forms with -e- perhaps show sporadic interchange of e and i before l plus consonant, although the isolated Old English form meledeaw is difficult to explain. (In Old English both forms, meledeaw and mildeaw , occur once only.) In form mealy-dew after mealy adj.; in form mieldew in quot. 1658 at sense 1 probably after French miel honey. French mildiou (1881; 1874 as mildew) is a late borrowing of the English word.

†1. = honeydew n. 1, 2. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > nectar

mildeweOE

honeydew1533

nectar1555

honeysuckle1607

honeysuck1608

nectar flood1610

nectar fountain1611

honey-rore1632

honey1733

the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > nectar or honey-dew

honeyeOE

nectar1609

mildew1658

stroke1742

bee-wine1818

aphis-sugar1842

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > substance excreted

honeydew1526

spittle of the stars1577

mildew1658

eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 326 Nectar, hunig vel mildeaw.

OE Phoenix 260 No he foddor þigeð,..nemne meledeawes dæl gebyrge, se dreoseð oft æt middre nihte.

a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 269 (MED) Swetter is munegunge of þe þen mildeu o muðe.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 53^v Ther is another kind of swete dewes, that falleth in England called the meldewes, which is as sweet as hony.

1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. T She..with sweete Mel-dewes doth anoint her face.

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. lxi. 31 While on the Christian Lords Downe fell the mildew of his sugred words.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 65 The Honny of Bees is longer kept pure and fine, then any Manna or Meldew.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 908 A kinde of heavenly Ambrosia falls down upon the leaves of plants (which they call honey dew, but I rather mieldew).

1669 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ 273 Mildew, a certain Dew, falling in the moneths of June and July, which being of a viscous nature, much impedes the growth or maturation of Wheat, Hops, &c.

1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 198 It..is more subject..to lodge the Honey-dews, or what some call Mill-dews.

a. As a mass noun: a growth (typically a whitish and fluffy coating) of fungal mycelium and fructifications on the surface of a plant; plant disease characterized by this type of growth; a similar growth on paper, cloth, leather, etc., esp. after exposure to damp. As a count noun: an attack of such disease; a specific disease of this type; a fungus (esp. an ascomycete of the order Erysiphales or an oomycete of the family Peronosporaceae) that causes such a disease. Frequently with distinguishing word.corn-, downy, hop-, powdery, vine-mildew, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > mould or mildew

fenOE

mildew1340

moulda1400

moul1440

vinny1538

hoar1548

mouldingc1610

vinegar-plant1797

moulder1817

mucor1818

vinegar mother1839

leaf rust1859

wood-mould1869

Isaria1874

grease mould1882

brown mould1883

pourriture noble1911

fumagine1913

1340 Inquisitiones Nonarum (Record Comm.) 334b Maxima pars frumenti in parochie seminati distruebatur..hoc anno..per quendam rorem qui vocatur mildew.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xli. 6 Seuen eeres burgound in o stalk, full & feyr, & oþer as feel eerez, þynn & smyten with myldew [v.r. meldew; L. uredine] wern growen.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 337/2 Myldew, uredo.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiii^v They [sc. pasture-sheep] syldome rote but with myldewes.

1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iii. f. 39 Iudocus doth defende the corne, from myldeawes and from blast.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings viii. 37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence,..mildew .

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 246 If the place be subject to the annoyances of Smutting, Meldews, Birds, &c.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 234 Field Lands are not exempted from Milldews.

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry II. 411 The rust of corn, the honey-dew, the mealy-dew.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 209/2 The common orange-red mildew of the Berberry is Æcidium Berberides.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxiii. 225 Damp started on the walls... Mildew and mould began to lurk in closets.

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany x. 153 Damp and moss and mildew are not such deadly enemies to art as the chisel of the modern stonemason.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 293/2 The mildews of damp linen and of paper are saprophytes.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 136/4 The latter method, while it may kill aphids and some mildew, will do little to prevent the dreaded black spot.

1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. v. 263 Shirlan is also much used for protecting cotton against mildew attack.

1992 Atlantic Dec. 141/1 Madeira had just recovered from two blights—oidium, a mildew that struck in 1852, and phyloxera, a louse that wiped out most European vineyards.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

1640 Ld. J. Digby Speech in Comm. 9 Nov. 7 [It] hath fallen againe upon the Land..in Hailstones and Milldews, to batter and prostrate..our liberties, to blast..our affections.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 290 Neither the blasts of arbitrary power could break them off, nor the mildew of servile opinion cause them to wither.

1892 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. (new ed.) I. 138 Something of the mildew of time is stealing over the Waverley Novels.

1960 D. Lodge Picturegoers (1991) (BNC) 114 He had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it—when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

† mildew-blast n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1637 J. Milton Comus 22 Of soveraine use 'Gainst all inchantments, mildew blast, or damp.

mildew-drop n.

ΚΠ

1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xviii. 97 The mildew drops fell one by one, With tinkling plash, upon the stone.

mildew-plant n.

ΚΠ

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 209/2 Every precaution should be taken to prevent the spores of the mildew-plants from being communicated to the soil.

1857 Littell's Living Age 27 Dec. 809/2 Gardeners become more intimately acquainted with..the structure of the plants which constitute their crops, and with the mildew plants which ravage them.

mildew-resistant adj.

ΚΠ

1977 Kitchens & Bathrooms (Time Life Bks.) i. 27/1 (caption) Use a caulking gun..to grout between sheets of pregrouted tile with mildew-resistant silicone seal.

1991 Southern Living May 107/2 (advt.) Seasonite provides a mildew-resistant coating that also helps reduce splitting, swelling, cupping and warping.

C2.

† mildew-gangrene n. Obsolete rare gangrenous ergotism; cf. mildew-mortification n.

ΚΠ

1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mildew Mildew gangrene, gangrene produced by diseased grain, such as Gangrenous ergotism.

† mildew-grass n. Obsolete grass affected with mildew.

ΚΠ

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiii^v Myldewe grasse is nat gode for shepe.

† mildew-mortification n. Obsolete rare gangrenous ergotism; cf. mildew-gangrene n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > types of

fever sore1731

white gangrene1753

hospital ulcer1799

hospital gangrene1813

mildew-mortification1817

caseation1868

phosphorus necrosis1869

gaseous gangrene1882

coagulation necrosis1883

phossy jaw1889

phos1892

gas gangrene1896

1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 274 Necrosis ustilaginea. Sauv. Ergot F. Mildew-Mortification.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mildewv.

Brit.

/ˈmɪldjuː/,

/ˈmɪldʒuː/, U.S.

/ˈmɪlˌd(j)u/

Forms: 1600s melldew, 1600s– mildew, 1700s milldew.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mildew n.

Etymology: < mildew n., perhaps after earlier mildewed adj.

a. transitive. To affect or taint with mildew.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > make corrupt or putrid [verb (transitive)] > make musty or mouldy

moul?c1430

mildew1552

vinny?1608

mould1635

must1707

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > make mouldy or musty > taint with mildew

mildew1552

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Mylle dewed, rubiginosus.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 107 Hee..mildewes the white wheate.

1689 A. Behn Hist. Nun 92 His Crops of Wheat and Barly, and other Grain, tho' manag'd by able and knowing Husbandmen, were all, either Mildew'd, or Blasted, or some Misfortune still arriv'd to him.

1747 B. Franklin Let. 16 July in Wks. (1887) II. 76 A great deal of hay has been lost, and some corn mildewed.

1828 W. Sotheby Italy & Other Poems 161 Bleak winds descend, and drizzly Autumn weeps, Mildewing the harvest as the ears unfold.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 541 The Licensing Act..detains valuable packages of books at the Custom House till the pages are mildewed.

a1867 D. M. Dolben in Poems (1911) 75 The greening fields of my delightsome land, Mildewing every tender bud to blight.

1981 H. Carpenter W. H. Auden (1983) i. iv. 64 He kept on his mantlepiece a decaying orange, thoroughly mildewed on the side that faced the wall.

b. transitive. figurative or in figurative context.

ΚΠ

1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies i. 4 Whole Summer nights long hee lyes on his backe, as if hee were melldew'd or Planet-strucke, gazing on the starrie gallerie.

1807 J. Montgomery Molehill 72 Tyrants, the comets of their kind, Whose withering influence..smote and mildew'd man.

1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. i. 47 Nor are the members of the Institute, with all their learning, recluses mildewed in the dust of folios.

1937 V. Woolf Diary 29 Aug. (1984) V. 110 Why does any showing off mildew everything?

1955 E. Bowen World of Love i. 18 Blight had cut short her early beauty, apathy mildewed what might have remained.

1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 110/1 Alfredo Garcia has flies buzzing on the sound track, hit men in flared pants, Warren Oates mildewing the screen like a problem stain.

a. intransitive. To become tainted with mildew.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > become corrupt or putrid [verb (intransitive)] > become musty or mouldy

vinnyOE

moul?c1225

mould1530

must1530

foisty1572

hoar1573

musty1631

mildew1651

to grow whiskers1977

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > become mouldy or musty > become mildewed

mildew1651

1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 18 Rank Land, where Corne is apt to lodge, and consequently to Mildew.

1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. xiii. 482 Authors sometimes detain proofs so long, that the paper allotted for those sheets will mildew.

1860 Amer. Agriculturist 19 363/3 A few of the leaves on one vine became a little rusty, thus showing a slight tendency to mildew.

1982 Observer 5 Sept. 7/3 It's sad, like coming upon an intricately worked trade union banner,..its colours now fading, its edges ragged and its folds beginning to mildew.

1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 Nov. 17/1 The hardback is now out of print, vanished entirely off the planet, except for the 100 remaindered copies mildewing in my basement.

b. intransitive. figurative.

ΚΠ

1855 C. Dickens Out of Town in Househ. Words 29 Sept. 193/2 The last man..sitting on a post in a ragged red waistcoat, eating straw, and mildewing away.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 71 These old pheasant-lords,..Who had mildew'd in their thousands, doing nothing.

1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn xv. 239 Bad year or not, it's better than mildewing on the coast.

1978 Church Times 10 Feb. 12 The thing which principally prevents me from gently mildewing in this place is the lively response of you, the readers.

Derivatives

† mildewer n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1807 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 389 The man..is a noted mildewer on the profits of the noblest verse.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mildew
释义	mildewn. Brit. /ˈmɪldjuː/, /ˈmɪldʒuː/, U.S. /ˈmɪlˌd(j)u/ Forms: Old English meledeaw, Old English mildeaw, Middle English mildeu, Middle English–1500s myldew, Middle English–1500s myldewe, Middle English–1600s meldewe, Middle English–1700s (1900s– English regional (Herefordshire)) meldew, Middle English– mildew, 1500s mildeawe, 1500s milldewe, 1500s myldeawe, 1500s–1600s mildewe, 1600s mieldew, 1600s–1700s milldew, 1700s mealy-dew. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Saxon milidou (Middle Low German mēldouw , mēldouwe ), Old High German militou (Middle High German miltou , German regional (Bavaria) Miltau , German Meltau honeydew, Mehltau mildew), probably < the Germanic base of Gothic miliþ honey (see mell n.²) + the Germanic base of dew n.If the assumption is correct that the first element of the word is cognate with Gothic miliþ , the word probably originally denoted the sweet, sticky substance on plants caused by greenfly, subsequently coming to be used more widely of other substances that coat the leaves of diseased plants; application to the white, powdery leaf-coating caused by certain fungal infestations may have led in continental Germanic languages to reanalysis of the first element as showing the reflex of the Germanic base of meal n.¹ (the two forms being distinguished in modern German as Meltau honeydew and Mehltau mildew). Dutch meeldauw (1778), Swedish mjöldagg (1731), Danish meldugg , Norwegian mjøldogg , (Bokmål) meldogg are later formations after German Mehltau or Middle Low German mēldouw, mēldouwe. English forms with -e- perhaps show sporadic interchange of e and i before l plus consonant, although the isolated Old English form meledeaw is difficult to explain. (In Old English both forms, meledeaw and mildeaw , occur once only.) In form mealy-dew after mealy adj.; in form mieldew in quot. 1658 at sense 1 probably after French miel honey. French mildiou (1881; 1874 as mildew) is a late borrowing of the English word. †1. = honeydew n. 1, 2. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > nectar mildeweOE honeydew1533 nectar1555 honeysuckle1607 honeysuck1608 nectar flood1610 nectar fountain1611 honey-rore1632 honey1733 the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > nectar or honey-dew honeyeOE nectar1609 mildew1658 stroke1742 bee-wine1818 aphis-sugar1842 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > substance excreted honeydew1526 spittle of the stars1577 mildew1658 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 326 Nectar, hunig vel mildeaw. OE Phoenix 260 No he foddor þigeð,..nemne meledeawes dæl gebyrge, se dreoseð oft æt middre nihte. a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 269 (MED) Swetter is munegunge of þe þen mildeu o muðe. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 53^v Ther is another kind of swete dewes, that falleth in England called the meldewes, which is as sweet as hony. 1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. T She..with sweete Mel-dewes doth anoint her face. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. lxi. 31 While on the Christian Lords Downe fell the mildew of his sugred words. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 65 The Honny of Bees is longer kept pure and fine, then any Manna or Meldew. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 908 A kinde of heavenly Ambrosia falls down upon the leaves of plants (which they call honey dew, but I rather mieldew). 1669 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ 273 Mildew, a certain Dew, falling in the moneths of June and July, which being of a viscous nature, much impedes the growth or maturation of Wheat, Hops, &c. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 198 It..is more subject..to lodge the Honey-dews, or what some call Mill-dews. 2. a. As a mass noun: a growth (typically a whitish and fluffy coating) of fungal mycelium and fructifications on the surface of a plant; plant disease characterized by this type of growth; a similar growth on paper, cloth, leather, etc., esp. after exposure to damp. As a count noun: an attack of such disease; a specific disease of this type; a fungus (esp. an ascomycete of the order Erysiphales or an oomycete of the family Peronosporaceae) that causes such a disease. Frequently with distinguishing word.corn-, downy, hop-, powdery, vine-mildew, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > mould or mildew fenOE mildew1340 moulda1400 moul1440 vinny1538 hoar1548 mouldingc1610 vinegar-plant1797 moulder1817 mucor1818 vinegar mother1839 leaf rust1859 wood-mould1869 Isaria1874 grease mould1882 brown mould1883 pourriture noble1911 fumagine1913 1340 Inquisitiones Nonarum (Record Comm.) 334b Maxima pars frumenti in parochie seminati distruebatur..hoc anno..per quendam rorem qui vocatur mildew. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xli. 6 Seuen eeres burgound in o stalk, full & feyr, & oþer as feel eerez, þynn & smyten with myldew [v.r. meldew; L. uredine] wern growen. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 337/2 Myldew, uredo. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiii^v They [sc. pasture-sheep] syldome rote but with myldewes. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iii. f. 39 Iudocus doth defende the corne, from myldeawes and from blast. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings viii. 37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence,..mildew . View more context for this quotation 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 246 If the place be subject to the annoyances of Smutting, Meldews, Birds, &c. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 234 Field Lands are not exempted from Milldews. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry II. 411 The rust of corn, the honey-dew, the mealy-dew. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 209/2 The common orange-red mildew of the Berberry is Æcidium Berberides. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxiii. 225 Damp started on the walls... Mildew and mould began to lurk in closets. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany x. 153 Damp and moss and mildew are not such deadly enemies to art as the chisel of the modern stonemason. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 293/2 The mildews of damp linen and of paper are saprophytes. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 136/4 The latter method, while it may kill aphids and some mildew, will do little to prevent the dreaded black spot. 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. v. 263 Shirlan is also much used for protecting cotton against mildew attack. 1992 Atlantic Dec. 141/1 Madeira had just recovered from two blights—oidium, a mildew that struck in 1852, and phyloxera, a louse that wiped out most European vineyards. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1640 Ld. J. Digby Speech in Comm. 9 Nov. 7 [It] hath fallen againe upon the Land..in Hailstones and Milldews, to batter and prostrate..our liberties, to blast..our affections. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 290 Neither the blasts of arbitrary power could break them off, nor the mildew of servile opinion cause them to wither. 1892 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. (new ed.) I. 138 Something of the mildew of time is stealing over the Waverley Novels. 1960 D. Lodge Picturegoers (1991) (BNC) 114 He had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it—when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. † mildew-blast n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1637 J. Milton Comus 22 Of soveraine use 'Gainst all inchantments, mildew blast, or damp. mildew-drop n. ΚΠ 1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xviii. 97 The mildew drops fell one by one, With tinkling plash, upon the stone. mildew-plant n. ΚΠ 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 209/2 Every precaution should be taken to prevent the spores of the mildew-plants from being communicated to the soil. 1857 Littell's Living Age 27 Dec. 809/2 Gardeners become more intimately acquainted with..the structure of the plants which constitute their crops, and with the mildew plants which ravage them. b. mildew-resistant adj. ΚΠ 1977 Kitchens & Bathrooms (Time Life Bks.) i. 27/1 (caption) Use a caulking gun..to grout between sheets of pregrouted tile with mildew-resistant silicone seal. 1991 Southern Living May 107/2 (advt.) Seasonite provides a mildew-resistant coating that also helps reduce splitting, swelling, cupping and warping. C2. † mildew-gangrene n. Obsolete rare gangrenous ergotism; cf. mildew-mortification n. ΚΠ 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mildew Mildew gangrene, gangrene produced by diseased grain, such as Gangrenous ergotism. † mildew-grass n. Obsolete grass affected with mildew. ΚΠ ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiii^v Myldewe grasse is nat gode for shepe. † mildew-mortification n. Obsolete rare gangrenous ergotism; cf. mildew-gangrene n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > types of fever sore1731 white gangrene1753 hospital ulcer1799 hospital gangrene1813 mildew-mortification1817 caseation1868 phosphorus necrosis1869 gaseous gangrene1882 coagulation necrosis1883 phossy jaw1889 phos1892 gas gangrene1896 1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 274 Necrosis ustilaginea. Sauv. Ergot F. Mildew-Mortification. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). mildewv. Brit. /ˈmɪldjuː/, /ˈmɪldʒuː/, U.S. /ˈmɪlˌd(j)u/ Forms: 1600s melldew, 1600s– mildew, 1700s milldew. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mildew n. Etymology: < mildew n., perhaps after earlier mildewed adj. 1. a. transitive. To affect or taint with mildew. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > make corrupt or putrid [verb (transitive)] > make musty or mouldy moul?c1430 mildew1552 vinny?1608 mould1635 must1707 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > make mouldy or musty > taint with mildew mildew1552 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Mylle dewed, rubiginosus. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 107 Hee..mildewes the white wheate. View more context for this quotation 1689 A. Behn Hist. Nun 92 His Crops of Wheat and Barly, and other Grain, tho' manag'd by able and knowing Husbandmen, were all, either Mildew'd, or Blasted, or some Misfortune still arriv'd to him. 1747 B. Franklin Let. 16 July in Wks. (1887) II. 76 A great deal of hay has been lost, and some corn mildewed. 1828 W. Sotheby Italy & Other Poems 161 Bleak winds descend, and drizzly Autumn weeps, Mildewing the harvest as the ears unfold. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 541 The Licensing Act..detains valuable packages of books at the Custom House till the pages are mildewed. a1867 D. M. Dolben in Poems (1911) 75 The greening fields of my delightsome land, Mildewing every tender bud to blight. 1981 H. Carpenter W. H. Auden (1983) i. iv. 64 He kept on his mantlepiece a decaying orange, thoroughly mildewed on the side that faced the wall. b. transitive. figurative or in figurative context. ΚΠ 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies i. 4 Whole Summer nights long hee lyes on his backe, as if hee were melldew'd or Planet-strucke, gazing on the starrie gallerie. 1807 J. Montgomery Molehill 72 Tyrants, the comets of their kind, Whose withering influence..smote and mildew'd man. 1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. i. 47 Nor are the members of the Institute, with all their learning, recluses mildewed in the dust of folios. 1937 V. Woolf Diary 29 Aug. (1984) V. 110 Why does any showing off mildew everything? 1955 E. Bowen World of Love i. 18 Blight had cut short her early beauty, apathy mildewed what might have remained. 1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 110/1 Alfredo Garcia has flies buzzing on the sound track, hit men in flared pants, Warren Oates mildewing the screen like a problem stain. 2. a. intransitive. To become tainted with mildew. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > become corrupt or putrid [verb (intransitive)] > become musty or mouldy vinnyOE moul?c1225 mould1530 must1530 foisty1572 hoar1573 musty1631 mildew1651 to grow whiskers1977 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > become mouldy or musty > become mildewed mildew1651 1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 18 Rank Land, where Corne is apt to lodge, and consequently to Mildew. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. xiii. 482 Authors sometimes detain proofs so long, that the paper allotted for those sheets will mildew. 1860 Amer. Agriculturist 19 363/3 A few of the leaves on one vine became a little rusty, thus showing a slight tendency to mildew. 1982 Observer 5 Sept. 7/3 It's sad, like coming upon an intricately worked trade union banner,..its colours now fading, its edges ragged and its folds beginning to mildew. 1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 Nov. 17/1 The hardback is now out of print, vanished entirely off the planet, except for the 100 remaindered copies mildewing in my basement. b. intransitive. figurative. ΚΠ 1855 C. Dickens Out of Town in Househ. Words 29 Sept. 193/2 The last man..sitting on a post in a ragged red waistcoat, eating straw, and mildewing away. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 71 These old pheasant-lords,..Who had mildew'd in their thousands, doing nothing. 1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn xv. 239 Bad year or not, it's better than mildewing on the coast. 1978 Church Times 10 Feb. 12 The thing which principally prevents me from gently mildewing in this place is the lively response of you, the readers. Derivatives † mildewer n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1807 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 389 The man..is a noted mildewer on the profits of the noblest verse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOEv.1552
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