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mestilun (s.xiii)

mestilun (s.xiii)

mestilon,  mestillon,  mestulun;  mixtilioun  (mustelun  Vernac Glosses 17.33)  
  FEW:  mixtus 6/ii,196b Gdf:  mesteillon 5,306b GdfC: TL: mesteillon 5,1689 DEAF: DMF:  méteillon  TLF: OED:  maslin n.2 and adj.  MED:  mestelion n.  DMLBS:  mestilio 1779c

s.

agriculturalmaslin, mixture of grain (sown and harvested as such)
( 1297 )  Nouz vous comandums ke vous facez liverer a Roberd la Gweyte .j. bussel de mestilun  Westm Wenlok 85.115
( MS: s.xiv1 )  la rent d'un busselle de mixtilioun aprendre en chescun semaigne del an d'un molyn mys en view  Nov Narr 336.CX.14
( 1333 )  duze acres de furment e de mestillon  Rot Parl1 ii 71
agriculturalmaslin, mixture of grain (gathered from chaff during the sifting process)
( MS: s.xiii )  Vendunt autem panes de frumento, di siligine, de ordeo, de avena, de acere (gloss: mestulun quod eicitur a vanno), et frequenter de furfure  TLL i 198.33 and ii 150.33

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See also:

mestel  mixture 
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mestilun