Mississippin.

Brit.

/ˌmɪsᵻˈsɪpi/, U.S.

/ˌmɪsᵻˈsɪpi/

Forms: 1700s Messisipi, 1700s Missisipee, 1700s Missisippi, 1700s– Mississippi, 1800s Missisipie, 1800s Mississipi, 1800s Mississippy. In main sense usually with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mississippi.

Etymology: < the name of the Mississippi River in North America, and the name of the region or (from 1817) the state in the southern United States taking its name from the river.In main sense perhaps on account of the distinctive ‘bridge’ used in the game.

A game similar to bagatelle, in which points are scored by driving a ball against cushions at the side of the table so as to go through one of a series of arches forming a bridge at the end of the table.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun]

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trucks1671

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Mississippi1728

bumble-puppy1794

bubble the justice1801

bagatelle1819

cockamaroo1850

pigs in clover1889

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pinball game1911

Skee-Ball1923

Corinthian bagatelle1933

pachinko1949

1728 in J. Ritson Digest Proc. Court Leet of Savoy (1789) 15 Playing a game commonly called Missisipee.

1777 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales 159 They also play in the yard at skittles, missisippi, fives, tennis, &c.

1835 J. Wilson Biogr. of Blind 185 I remember his occasionally playing at billiards, missisipie, shuffle-board and skittles.

1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 612 Bagatelle games... Sans Egal... Mississipi... Trou Madame.

1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 405/1 Mississippi, game is played on a bagatelle board..with the addition of a bridge.

1989 Encycl. Brit. I. 792/1 Mississippi is played with a bridge pierced with nine or more arches, according to the size of the table.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

mississippi table n.

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1750 Pennsylvania Gaz. 2 Jan. 3/2 (advt.) The first day of February next.., will be exposed to sale by publick vendue, a messuage or tenement, and lot of ground thereto belonging.., as also a Billiard table and Messisipi table.

1757 Act 30 Geo. II c. 24 §14 Any gaming with cards, dice,..mississippi or billiard tables.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. i. §18 Arches similar to those upon the mississipi-table.

1853 Glasgow Herald 28 Jan. 8/3 Large Grotto, Old Square Piano-forte, Lot music, Mississippi Table with Balls, [etc.].

C2.

Mississippi Bubble n. = Mississippi Scheme n.

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1767 B. Franklin Writings V. 10 There have been..Mississippi and South-Sea Schemes and Bubbles.

1888 Cent. Mag. Nov. 114/2 When John Law, author of that famed Mississippi Bubble..failed at his efforts of colonization on the Arkansas, his Arkansas settlers came down the Mississippi.

1989 Encycl. Brit. VII. 201/1 As the author of the program, popularly known as the ‘Mississippi Bubble’, Law was responsible and was forced to flee France in 1720.

Mississippi kite n. a migratory kite, Ictinia mississippiensis, which has a grey body, whitish head, and black tail, and breeds in the southern United States.

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1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 80 Mississippi Kite, Falco Mississipiensis.

1895 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1894 218 The Mississippi kite and its white-tailed ally devour large numbers of lizards, small snakes, and insects.

1950 Ecol. Monogr. 20 116/2 The Mississippi kite lives largely on flying insects.

1987 Field Guide Birds N. Amer. (National Geographic Soc.) (ed. 2) 186 Unlike those species, Mississippi kite never hovers.

Mississippi mud pie n. see mud-pie n. 2.

Mississippi rifle n. U.S. (now historical) a large, muzzle-loading rifle formerly used in Mississippi.

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1847 W. H. Richardson Jrnl. 28 Feb. (1928) 77 Our 12-lb. howitzers throwing a constant shower of bombs into the middle of their entrenchments, and the unerring aim of our Mississippi rifles, acting in concert, cast terror and dismay among the cowardly and unprincipled foe.

1874 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada (new ed.) 45 His long Mississippi rifle waved to and fro through the air.

1994 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 81 1242 A Mississippi rifle manufactured in 1855.

Mississippi Scheme n. French History a financial scheme operated between 1717 and 1720 by the Scottish banker, John Law (1671–1729), as a measure to reduce the French public debt, which failed when speculation in the stock of the Compagnie de la Louisiane ou d'Occident, which controlled French trade and colonization in North America, led to an uncontrolled rise and subsequent crash in share prices.

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1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxxi. 205 The first money that returned from the second creation of actions in the Missisippi-scheme, in which he was an adventurer.

1842 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 524 A species of speculative frenzy seized the people, similar to what we have examples of in Law's Mississippi Scheme, in France.

1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 353/1 San Moisè, where is buried a sinner, John Law, of the Mississippi Scheme, on whom be peace!

1999 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 32 135 The querulous, vindictive aftermath of the collapse of joint stocks in the Bubble and the evaporation of the Mississippi Scheme.

Mississippi Territory n. U.S. (now historical) a former U.S. territory (established in 1798) in the southern part of North America, occupying approximately the area now occupied by the states of Mississippi and Alabama.

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1799 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 41 The organization of the government of the Mississippi Territory..should perhaps be mentioned to Congress.

1857 T. H. Benton Examination Dred Scott Case 47 Organizing the Mississippi territory..was done by spreading the ordinance of '87 over it.

1910 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 603/1 Finally, in the treaty of San Lorenzo el Real (ratified 1796) she [sc. Spain] accepted the 1763 (31°) boundary, and withdrew her troops in 1798. Mississippi Territory was then organized, with Winthrop Sarjent as governor.

1985 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 72 317 The different economic adaptations selected variantly by Indian inhabitants of the Mississippi Territory.

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

单词	mississippi
释义	Mississippin. Brit. /ˌmɪsᵻˈsɪpi/, U.S. /ˌmɪsᵻˈsɪpi/ Forms: 1700s Messisipi, 1700s Missisipee, 1700s Missisippi, 1700s– Mississippi, 1800s Missisipie, 1800s Mississipi, 1800s Mississippy. In main sense usually with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mississippi. Etymology: < the name of the Mississippi River in North America, and the name of the region or (from 1817) the state in the southern United States taking its name from the river.In main sense perhaps on account of the distinctive ‘bridge’ used in the game. A game similar to bagatelle, in which points are scored by driving a ball against cushions at the side of the table so as to go through one of a series of arches forming a bridge at the end of the table. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun] troll-madam1572 nine holes1573 pigeonholes1608 small trunksc1610 hole1611 trucks1671 roly-poly1707 Mississippi1728 bumble-puppy1794 bubble the justice1801 bagatelle1819 cockamaroo1850 pigs in clover1889 pinball1911 pinball game1911 Skee-Ball1923 Corinthian bagatelle1933 pachinko1949 1728 in J. Ritson Digest Proc. Court Leet of Savoy (1789) 15 Playing a game commonly called Missisipee. 1777 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales 159 They also play in the yard at skittles, missisippi, fives, tennis, &c. 1835 J. Wilson Biogr. of Blind 185 I remember his occasionally playing at billiards, missisipie, shuffle-board and skittles. 1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 612 Bagatelle games... Sans Egal... Mississipi... Trou Madame. 1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 405/1 Mississippi, game is played on a bagatelle board..with the addition of a bridge. 1989 Encycl. Brit. I. 792/1 Mississippi is played with a bridge pierced with nine or more arches, according to the size of the table. Compounds C1. General attributive. mississippi table n. ΚΠ 1750 Pennsylvania Gaz. 2 Jan. 3/2 (advt.) The first day of February next.., will be exposed to sale by publick vendue, a messuage or tenement, and lot of ground thereto belonging.., as also a Billiard table and Messisipi table. 1757 Act 30 Geo. II c. 24 §14 Any gaming with cards, dice,..mississippi or billiard tables. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. i. §18 Arches similar to those upon the mississipi-table. 1853 Glasgow Herald 28 Jan. 8/3 Large Grotto, Old Square Piano-forte, Lot music, Mississippi Table with Balls, [etc.]. C2. Mississippi Bubble n. = Mississippi Scheme n. ΚΠ 1767 B. Franklin Writings V. 10 There have been..Mississippi and South-Sea Schemes and Bubbles. 1888 Cent. Mag. Nov. 114/2 When John Law, author of that famed Mississippi Bubble..failed at his efforts of colonization on the Arkansas, his Arkansas settlers came down the Mississippi. 1989 Encycl. Brit. VII. 201/1 As the author of the program, popularly known as the ‘Mississippi Bubble’, Law was responsible and was forced to flee France in 1720. Mississippi kite n. a migratory kite, Ictinia mississippiensis, which has a grey body, whitish head, and black tail, and breeds in the southern United States. ΚΠ 1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 80 Mississippi Kite, Falco Mississipiensis. 1895 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1894 218 The Mississippi kite and its white-tailed ally devour large numbers of lizards, small snakes, and insects. 1950 Ecol. Monogr. 20 116/2 The Mississippi kite lives largely on flying insects. 1987 Field Guide Birds N. Amer. (National Geographic Soc.) (ed. 2) 186 Unlike those species, Mississippi kite never hovers. Mississippi mud pie n. see mud-pie n. 2. Mississippi rifle n. U.S. (now historical) a large, muzzle-loading rifle formerly used in Mississippi. ΚΠ 1847 W. H. Richardson Jrnl. 28 Feb. (1928) 77 Our 12-lb. howitzers throwing a constant shower of bombs into the middle of their entrenchments, and the unerring aim of our Mississippi rifles, acting in concert, cast terror and dismay among the cowardly and unprincipled foe. 1874 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada (new ed.) 45 His long Mississippi rifle waved to and fro through the air. 1994 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 81 1242 A Mississippi rifle manufactured in 1855. Mississippi Scheme n. French History a financial scheme operated between 1717 and 1720 by the Scottish banker, John Law (1671–1729), as a measure to reduce the French public debt, which failed when speculation in the stock of the Compagnie de la Louisiane ou d'Occident, which controlled French trade and colonization in North America, led to an uncontrolled rise and subsequent crash in share prices. ΚΠ 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxxi. 205 The first money that returned from the second creation of actions in the Missisippi-scheme, in which he was an adventurer. 1842 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 524 A species of speculative frenzy seized the people, similar to what we have examples of in Law's Mississippi Scheme, in France. 1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 353/1 San Moisè, where is buried a sinner, John Law, of the Mississippi Scheme, on whom be peace! 1999 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 32 135 The querulous, vindictive aftermath of the collapse of joint stocks in the Bubble and the evaporation of the Mississippi Scheme. Mississippi Territory n. U.S. (now historical) a former U.S. territory (established in 1798) in the southern part of North America, occupying approximately the area now occupied by the states of Mississippi and Alabama. ΚΠ 1799 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 41 The organization of the government of the Mississippi Territory..should perhaps be mentioned to Congress. 1857 T. H. Benton Examination Dred Scott Case 47 Organizing the Mississippi territory..was done by spreading the ordinance of '87 over it. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 603/1 Finally, in the treaty of San Lorenzo el Real (ratified 1796) she [sc. Spain] accepted the 1763 (31°) boundary, and withdrew her troops in 1798. Mississippi Territory was then organized, with Winthrop Sarjent as governor. 1985 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 72 317 The different economic adaptations selected variantly by Indian inhabitants of the Mississippi Territory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1728
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