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▪ I. † ˈmisy Obs.
Also 7 mysy, missy.
[a. L. misy (Pliny), a. Gr. µίσυ. Cf. F. misy, It. misi.]
1. A kind of mushroom or truffle.
1601Holland Pliny xix. iii. II. 7 Within the province of Cyrenaica in Affricke, there is found the like excrescence, called Misy, passing sweet and pleasant.
2. A kind of copper ore, usually identified as yellow copperas or copiapite.
There is no evidence that the word was ever used in Eng. except with reference to the mineral described by Pliny.
1601Holland Pliny xxxiv. xii. II. 510 Some..have written, that Mysy is engendred by the means of a fire made with pine wood, in the hollow veines..of brasse ore... But the truth is, of the foresaid stone or ore [sc. chalcitis] it is engendred naturally. 1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Misy, a kind of yellow copperas, shining like gold, brought out of Egypt and the Ile of Cyprus. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min., Isagoge, Some [minerals] have only little sparks, as misy. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. ii. 90 Missy..which G. Agricola from Pliny, calls Atramentum sutorium, or shoe-makers Black; but Pliny makes it a kind of Vitriol. 1722Quincy Lex. Physico-Med. (ed. 2). a1775Sir J. Hill Materia Med. 141.
▪ II. misy
obs. form of mizzy. |