molendinar, a. and n. nonce-wd. (humorously pedantic).
[ad. med.L. molendīnār-ius (pertaining to a mill, f. molendīnum mill, f. molend-us (frumentum molendum corn to be ground) gerundive of molĕre to grind. (A brook at Glasgow is called the Molendinar Burn; the local pronunciation is (molənˈdiːnər).)]
a. adj. Of or concerning a mill or miller. b. n. A molar tooth.
| 1820 Scott Monast. xxviii, O most Molendinar beauty. 1824 ― St. Ronan's xiii, The extraction of a carious molendinar. 1827 ― Diary 10 Feb. in Lockhart Life, The stories of the Miller of Thirlstane, and similar molendinar tragedies. |
So moˈlendinary a., belonging to a mill; n., a mill.
| 1820 Scott Monast. xxix, The house of thy molendinary father. 1822 ― Pirate xi, Can a man..look at that thing there, which they have the impudence to call a corn-mill, without trembling to think that corn should be intrusted to such a miserable molendinary? |