单词 | to mizzle of rain |
释义 | > as lemmasto mizzle of rain 1. intransitive. To rain in very fine droplets; to drizzle. Usually with non-referential it as subject. Also †to mizzle of rain. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > rain fine rain mugc1400 mizzle1439 mull1440 drizzle1566 haze1691 dag1825 smur1825 1439 [implied in: 1439 in Jrnl. Meteorol. (1984) 9 75 Dies tenebrosa cum myslyng. (at mizzling n.)]. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 81v To myssyll [1483 BL Add. 89074 Miselle], pluuitare. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 130 Il brvýne, it misleth. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 208 Up, Colin, up! Now gynnes to mizzle, hye we homeward fast. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 79 If it chanced to mizzle of raine, hee tooke that for a luckie signe. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 48 The raine..came not drizling or mizling downe vpon me. 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 5 Mar. (1948) II. 523 It has raind or mizzled all day. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Misle, (q.d. to mistle, i.e. to rain in a Mist, of Mieselen, Du.) to rain small. 1788 E. Butler Diary 12 Jan. in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) vi. 142 My Beloved and I went the Home Circuit, very dark, inclined to mizzle. 1816 J. Austen Emma I. i. 17 Because it began to mizzle, he darted away..and borrowed two umbrellas for us from Farmer Mitchell's. View more context for this quotation 1852 M. R. Mitford Recoll. I. 81 On the morning in question, it did not absolutely rain, it only mizzled. 1863 J. Turrill Diary Dec. in Oxfordshire Market Gardener (1993) 19 We have had no rain... It just missled every morning. 1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 101 It mizzles a bit but it won't be mich rain. 1952 F. C. Brown Coll. N. Carolina Folklore I. 565 Mizzle, to rain in fine or foglike drops. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 187/1 Mizzle, to rain in very fine drops, drizzle. 1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (BNC) 23 It was mizzling steadily, so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket. < as lemmas |
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