mig Obs. exc. dial.
(mɪg)
Forms: 1 micge, migga, migge, 3 migge, 5– mig.
[OE. micge wk. fem., migga wk. masc.:—prehistoric *migjôn-, -on, f. *mig- wk.-grade of OTeut. *mîg- (OE. m{iacu}ᵹan, ON. m{iacu}ga) to make water, cogn. w. L. mingĕre.]
Urine; or the drainings from manure. Also fig.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 354 Drince eft buccan micgan. Ibid. III. 132, & his [sc. the man's] migga byþ hwit. a 1225 Ancr. R. 402 And tet [sc. Greek fire] ne mei noðing bute migge, and sond, and eisil, ase me seið, acwenchen. c 1400 Apol. Loll. 58 Þe swyn of vnclennes drowniþ himself in þe mig of lecherie. 1868 Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Mig, liquid manure; the fluid which runs away from the midden, or from the stall drains of a cow-house, &c. |