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muid|mɥi|
Forms: 4–7 muy, 5 muye, mue, 6 mui, 5 mewe, 6–8 mew, 7 mued, 7– muid. See also moy n.1, mud n.2
[a. OF. mui, mod.F. muid:—L. modium: see modius. Cf. Du. mud(de, mud n.2]
1. A former French measure of capacity, varying greatly in different localities and as applied to different commodities. Obs. exc. Hist.
a. A dry measure (for corn, meat, salt, etc.).
In recent times the values assigned to it range from about 52 to about 110 bushels; in early use it was a much smaller measure, often stated as = 4 bushels.
c1400Rom. Rose 5590 An hundred mauys [so Thynne; read muys; Glasgow MS. mavis; Fr. orig. muis] of whete greyn. 1481Caxton Godeffroy xl. 78 He gaf to hym ten muyes, every muye is four busshellys. 1549Compl. Scot. xiv. 113 Annibal send to cartage thre muis of gold ryngis. 1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2831/2 The offer..of furnishing them with 18000 Muids [of Corn] at a reasonable Price. 1703Ibid. No. 3891/4 About 57 Mews of Bay-Salt. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Bushel, The Half-Minot contains three Bushels, and the Muid of Coals contains thirty Half-Minots. 1771Chron. in Ann. Reg. XIV. 100/1 In Swabia the muid of rye sells for 36 florins. 1804Ranken Hist. France III. v. 318 A modius or muid of seed yielded but a setier. 1859R. J. Mann Colony of Natal 124 One farmer in the Umvoti country reaped 120 muids (of 2243/256 bushels each) from 30 acres of land which had been sown with 5 muids of seed. 1873[see boermeal (Boer 2)].
†b. A liquid measure; a cask holding this.
The local varieties ranged from 60 to 160 gallons.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. xxxvii. 47 There was thenne estemyd fruyte ynough for to gadre an hundred mues, or tonnes of wyne. 1529Rastell Pastyme, Hist. Rom. (1811) 22 A mew of wyne which is almost iiii galons. c1618Moryson Itin. iv. (1903) 173 Each Mued of Wyne commonly yeildes the king Eighteene Shillings of our mony. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 160 They have established to her her pretentions of soe much upon every muy of wine as amounts unto the best part of a million per annum. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 62 Accounting 72 Gallons to the Hogshead, the Muid contains scarce 5/6 of a Hogshead. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Muid is also one of the nine casks, or regular vessels used in France, to put wine and other liquors in.
2. A French measure of land, representing the area that would require a ‘muid’ of seed.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 114 A Muid of Land is 12 Septiers or Arpents. |