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mixture (1267)

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mixture (1267)

mesture,  miture,  mixtur  
  FEW:  mixtura 6/ii,196b Gdf:  mesture 5,310c GdfC:  mixture 10,160a TL: mesture 5,1707 DEAF:  misture 6,99 DMF:  mixture  TLF:  mixture  OED:  mixture n. and adj.  MED:  mixture n.  DMLBS:  mixtura 1812a

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mixing, mingling
( 1482-83 )  [...] et saunz mixture et pakkur dez chosez et pessons rompez le ventre ovesqe le dit comptable pesson ou petit pesson  ii 471
metalalloying, (act of) mixing with baser metals
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Je ne say point d'especial Tout dire et nomer le metall Que Triche ové l'argent fait meller; Mais bien sai [...] Q'ensi l'argent fin et loyal De sa mixture fait falser  25530
mixture, mixed liquid
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  La miture est, en verité, De ceo: vin od ewe mellé  9411
agriculturalmaslin, mixture of grain (esp. wheat and rye)
( 1305 )  la moyté de furment e l’autre moyté de mesture  SC 8/114/5696
( 1381 )  lui avoir donez et grantez a terme de sa vie sys cestiers de froment et sis cesters de mesture  ii 306
faire mixture ové
to have sexual intercourse with
( s.xiii2; MS: c.1333 )  (the devils) Humaine forme perneient [...]; Ové les femes firent mixture  (L) 412

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See also:

mestel  mestilun 
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mixture