▪ I. mit, n. Obs. exc. dial.
(mɪt)
Forms: 1 mitte, 5 mytte, 9 mit.
[OE. mitte wk. fem.:—OTeut. type *mitjôn-, f. root *met to measure: see mete v. Cf. OHG. mezzo masc., ‘[h]eminus’, MHG. metze, G. metze masc., fem., a measure for corn, salt, etc.]
† 1. A measure of capacity, in OE. app. = two ambers; mentioned as used for corn, meal, honey, ale, wine; in 15th c. used for salt. Obs.
| 804–29 Charters, etc. (Thorpe) 460, xxx. ombra godes Uuelesces aloð þet limpnað to xv. mittum. c 1050 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 359/8 Bata, mittan. c 1450 Godstow Reg. 664 In the wyche xiiij. myttes of Salte [L. xiiii. mittas salis]. |
2. dial. ‘A shallow tub, or other like vessel, used for household purposes’ (Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Suppl. 1879), as butter-mit, kneading-mit. Cf. moat n.2
| 1847 Halliwell, Butter-mit, a small tub in which newly-made butter is washed. West. |
▪ II. ‖ mit, prep. colloq. or jocular.
(mɪt)
[G., with.]
With (esp. with apparent ellipsis of ‘me’ or ‘us’).
| 1885 W. James Let. 19 Feb. (1920) I. 241, I..suppose Mrs. Godkin will come mit. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 505 Will some pleashe pershon not now impediment so catastrophics mit agitation of firstclass table-numpkin? 1959 D. Barton Loving Cup 237 Why not come along mit. |
▪ III. mit
obs. form of might n.; var. mitt, a mitten.