▪ I. miskin1
(ˈmɪskɪn)
Also misken.
Variant (mainly s.w. midland dial.) of mixen.
| 1601 [Bp. W. Barlow] Defence 8 A very heape and misken of shamelesse vntruethes. a 1603 Order-bk. Worcester in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. I. 533 Every person having any donghills or myskyns. 1625 Fletcher & Shirley Nt. Walker iii. 216 Would you mellow my young pretty Mistress In such a misken? 1656 W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. 139 Our home-bred ones turn over miskens, and refuse things flung out. 1789 W. Marshall Glouc. I. 330 Miskin, the common term for a dunghill; or a heap of compost. 1896 Warw. Gloss., Miskin, a compost pit. |
| attrib. 1665 S. Harward Treat. Propag. Plants in Markham Way to Get Wealth iii. iv. 103 Good rank mould, tempered with short muck and misken water. |
▪ II. † ˈmiskin2 Obs. rare—1.
[? Dim. of MDu. muse, a. OF. muse (mod.F. musette, cornemuse) bagpipe.]
(See quots.)
| 1593 Drayton Ecl. ii. 5 Now would I tune my Miskins on this Greene [marg. A little Bagpipe]. 1678 Phillips, Miskin, (old word) a little Bagpipe. |
▪ III. miskin
variant of misken n.