▪ I. † miste, v. Obs.
[f. med.L. mistum, mixtum (OF. miste, mixte): see mixtum. Cf. med.L. mixtāre = ‘mixtum sumere’.]
intr. To take the light meal known as mixtum.
| c 1400 Rule St. Benet (Prose) xxxv. 26 Þa þat serue o þe kichin sal miste [orig. accipiant..singulos biberes et panem] bi-fore þe mikil mete bred, butter, þat tay may serue widvten gruching. Ibid. xxxviii. 27 Sho þat sal rede sal miste [orig. accipiat mixtum] ay litil, be-fore sho rede. |
▪ II. miste
scribal var. mihte: see may v.1 4 a.
| c 1205 Lay. 18690 Ne miste [c 1275 mihte] he of þan eorle naþing iwinnen. |