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muidn.1 Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French mui, muid. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French mui measure of capacity (c1160 in Old French; also moi , moy (13th cent.); c1135 in sense ‘barrel, cask’, 1283 as a measure of land), Middle French, French muid (1579, as etymological remodelling) < classical Latin modius modius n. Compare Old Occitan moi (12th cent.), Spanish moyo (10th cent.), Portuguese moio (late 11th cent.), Italian moggio (c1250; late 12th cent. as mogia (plural)). With the α. forms compare moy n.1, with the β. forms mud n.2, muid n.2 Dict. Older Sc. Tongue s.v. Mui n. records also a form with a morphological double plural -sses:1632 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. (1948) II. 456 Fyftein muisses of salt at 14 lib. the water boll. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (müi) /mɥi/. 1. A former French measure of capacity, varying greatly according to locality and commodity. Now historical. the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > French units a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) 5590 An hundred mavis [perh. read mowis; Fr. muis] of whete greyn. 1481 W. Caxton tr. (1893) xl. 78 He gaf to hym ten muyes, every muye is four busshellys. c1550 (1979) xiv. 89 Annibal send to cartage thre muis of gold ryngis. 1692 No. 2831/2 The offer..of furnishing them with 18000 Muids [of Corn] at a reasonable Price. 1703 No. 3891/4 About 57 Mews of Bay-Salt. 1727 R. Bradley (Dublin ed.) at Bushel The Half-Minot contains three Bushels, and the Muid of Coals contains thirty Half-Minots. 1772 100/1 In Swabia the muid of rye sells for 36 florins. 1804 A. Ranken III. v. 318 A modius or muid of seed yielded but a setier. 1905 19 459 The Parlement set the price at fifty sous per muid of grain, but the peasants ceased to bring corn into Rouen. 1992 64 245 The price of first-quality grain could be included only if more than a muid (approximately 3,300 pounds) of first-quality grain had been bought that day. the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > French units a1492 W. Caxton tr. (1495) i. xxxvii. f. xlvii/1 There was thenne estemyd fruyte ynough for to gadre an hundred mues, or tonnes of wyne. ?1530 J. Rastell sig. Biiv A mew of wyne which is almost .iiii. galons. a1630 F. Moryson in (1903) ii. i. 173 Each Mued of Wyne commonly yeildes the king Eighteene Shillings of our mony. 1655 in E. Nicholas (1892) 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. 1686 R. Plot ii. 62 Accounting 72 Gallons to the Hogshead, the Muid contains scarce 5/ 6 of a Hogshead. 1728 E. Chambers (at cited word) Muid is also one of the nine Casks, or regular Vessels used in France, to put Wine and other Liquors in. 1792 A. Young ii. xix. 488/3 Wines in general (159,222 muids)..Bourdeaux (201,246 muids). 1865 20 May 58/2 A muid of wine contains..272 litres. 1909 14 468 The tithe of the royal cellars and granaries at Auvers and Poissy, fourteen muids of grain in the mills of Bourges, or twenty muids of wine from the vineyards of Vorges and Joui. 1984–5 18 154 The droits d'entrée per muid (268 litres) were roughly 18 livres in 1680. the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > French units a1690 S. Jeake (1696) 114 A Muid of Land is 12 Septiers or Arpents. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). muidn.2  Brit.  /mjuːd/, /meɪd/, U.S. /mjud/, /meɪd/, South African English /mjuːd/, /meɪd/Inflections: Plural muids, (occasionally) muiden Brit. /ˈmjuːd(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈmjud(ə)n/, South African English /ˈmjuːdən/. Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch muid. Etymology: < South African Dutch muid (Afrikaans muid ) < French muid muid n.1 Compare mud n.2 South African. the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > other non-British unit 1795 T. H. Craig in G. M. Theal (1897) I. 271 Corn, of which the quantity in store belonging to the Company is immense, no less than 36,166 muids which I am informed is equal to near two years consumption. 1816 G. Barker Jrnl. 8 July in (1996) 482/1 Today my corn was all put into the ground, (2 muiden). 1859 R. J. Mann 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. 1915 J. K. O'Connor 99 There are too many poor whites in the country at present, and the problem..is of greater importance than the production of three muids of mealies where only one muid is now obtained. 1979 G. Butler & C. Mann 131 What I remember best Was dust. Man, I must Of swallowed a muid or two Of good karoo soil in my time. 1987 G. Viney 62 The werf boasted a barn containing one hundred and seventy muids of wheat. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1a1425 n.21795 |