OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20092, 22 November 1930, Page 13

OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

WORDS FOR SUPPLEMENT.

In issuing lU*3 of words to be treated in the Supplement, the editors of the Oxford Dictionary invito iliustr.-itive quotations of earlier date than those given, or, when none is given, quotations of any date. The most convenient size of slip for quotation, according to the editors, is G by 4in. Full reference should be given to author, title, volume, chapter, etc., of the book excerpted", and the edition used. Each slip should bear the catchword in the top left-hand corner, and all communications should be addressed to the secretary Clarendon Press, Oxford, marked, O.E.D. This is the fifth part of the latest list issued. Others j.ppeared in Tn» I'jtESi 0:1 proteding Saturdays.

Mendo'.ist . . 1910 min'j-fleld . . 1919 Mendelize . , 19U(5 mine-layer . . 1919 Memlelsaohnlan, mino-swecper, ♦Kohnic -sweeping 2911) mendoub mine-thrower 1923 (Morocco) miner (Ausmeningococcal, tral. bird) 1395 •coi-cic . . 190 ft minerals ( ~ Mennist (U.S.) 1800 mineral Menshovik .. 1917 waters) .. I90:J jMonshC'Vism, minestrone -ist • . 1920 (It., potmcntal homo, tage) . . 1921) hospital mingle, vb. (to Mcrcatorial (of Mingrelian . . 1876 Mcrcator) 1888 mingy ( rnierchant Rtmpy) .. 1928 (s rnu*. tniniatUTH low) .. 1919 ((.'heas;

merciir.wn miniticution . . 1904 itcrodithian 1908 Minimalist . . 1917 merg minimum waua 1904 slope) . . J919 mining-piece murioU'lo, (coin)

-stclic .. 1902 ministcrirtblo 3923 mcroplankton, ministrable . . IU2I

-ic . . 1903 ininne-drinking IHBO Mcrr'.mac calico minnoliod . . 1880 (U.S.) minnesonj; . . ' 1007 Hurry and minnic (trenchbright .. 1909 mortar) .. U" 1H mvrry-go-round minor tactics 1575 (trafiic) . . 1927 minority move-

"Merry Widow" incut 2927 hat mint condition mesa (python) 192-1 minus (of a moscal buttons 1895 person) mescalism . . 1902 minute (3 mesh connexion 1902 minutes mcshir.K (jjoars) iroin) 1886 mosocratic minute of dia((tool.) .. 1004 sent .. 1830 mesoji (inn) minute-man mesopel:ie .. 1890 (U.S. ftremosoprosopic 1890 man) .. 189*> mosorrhiny . . 190-i minuter (not©mesostatic taker, in remcfiostylo . . 1904 cent use) Afespot . . 1922 rninxish. minxmeHquinerie 18H;i ishly .. ICI9 Mcsrnpian .. 188; i Minvan cvtlmessinan . . 1920 tu're mepsaline mir (Russian (material) villasj-e com-moss-up (sb.) 1929 munity) .. 1877 mt'Kt (S. Afr.) mirabiie dictu 18U7 mesta (Sp.) 1922 miraman (Afr.) IR9O mesto (Mus.) 187<» mirifically .. 1922 me ta biological 192 1 misarchium, metabiosis . . 1899 -i^t . . 1898 metubiotic . . 1899 miscast mctnbular .. 1924 (Tbt-»t.) .. 1927 metacone .. 1896 misconstrue, metaronid .. .1897 Bb. .. 192rt inetftliogony 1903 misfire, vb. (of mfttamorpliose, n motor) . . 1905 vb. intr. . , 1927 misii-and-out metaphona .. 1925 (U.S., trap* metaphysician shoo tint?) 1903

(mind-cvirint) 1890 mission-furni-metapsychical 1905 ture (U.S.) 1003 mctatype (of missional . . 1907 rare) .. 1890 m i ? t (colour) 1927 metatypic .. 1800 mispnuffor .. 1003 metoorgraph 1009 Mitnnnian . . 1928 meter (ex- Mitcltell-grftS3 posure) .. 1002 (Austral.) 1883 methoda*ter 1904 mitochondria, meticulousnoss 192 H -i tk i .. 189f> mctronym .. 1904 mitosome .. 189t> metrostylo .. 1907 mitre-gntte .. 191U metussea (U.S.) mitrofd . . 18V6 Mexican mittMhund (isi (calico) .. 1310 Skat) micactze . . 1883 mivvy (landmlcate, vb. lady) . . 18H7 Mica\vberis"h 1920 mix-up, r.b. Micawbcrism ISSO (boxing) 1913 micrergate . . 1909 xni.v it, to i.icrobar .. 1914 (come to microbaro- blows) .. 1916

graph . . 1913 mixed (o{ ft microphone, vowel) vb. . . 1927 mixed bathinsc 1908 microtome, Tb. 1898 mixor (U.S., microtvpal . . 1900 barman) . . 1919 microtype . . 1902 mixer (U.S.. mlcrotypieal 1909 in company) 1009 middle-brow 1928 mixture (for Middle-Ka&t 1909 motors) . . 1905 middle-piece mkama (Afr.) 1878 (Zool.) .. , 1896 mkungu (Afr.) 1878 middle rail m'limo (S.Afr.) 189i> (Elect. Kngin.) mncme .. 1921 (U.S.) mraemic, adj. 1908 middle-white mnemotechnist 1891 (pip) .. 1902 mpret (Albania) middles K (bacon) . . 1892 naartjo . . 1908 middles nachlmaal . . 1905 (weight) 1908 nacelle (of middy blouse 1918 airship) . . 190tJ midinett© .. 1909 napna .. 1901 midshipman's nagual .. 1902 hitch . . 1886 naguaHsm

midway name-day (amusement (Stock fair) .. 1901 Exch.) .. 1002 midweekly name-flower 1007 mlggle (U.S., name-ribbon 1905 marble) . . 1895 namo-story . . 1927 migrate (to nanny ( r= transfer) 1028 nurse) . . 1012 mikado yellow 1909 nap, Bb. (racmilanese inpf) . . 1895 (fabric) . . 1928 nap, vb. (racmile (not a in?:) . . 1927 hundred nap h.md (lit. miles from) 1903 and fig.) mileage (ac- napoleon (raccounting) 1918 * ins) .. 1895 militant, sb. napoo (adj.) 1919 (suffragette) 1909 napoo (interj.) 1915 milk-ranch napoo (vb.) 1915 (U.S.) .. 1889 harciß*ine mi.k train . . 1909 ( selfmilking (cards) 1909 lovinc) . . 1911 millcograph .. 1909 narcissism .. 1920 millet narcissistic .. 1920

(Turkish) 1902 nat ( = millibar .. 1912 spirit) .. 1921 milli-lambert 191R national (Grr i milliphot .. 1018 National) 190^ MUlite (fol- nationalistic®.'.y J 91:5 lower of J. nation-wide .. 3920

S. Mill) .. 1917 nattier blue 1912 Mills-bomb . . 1919 nntunry . . 1904 mima (Burma) naturalist rnimodrarna 1017 ( = dealer) mimographer natu re-study 190.'i ( = writer naturopath . . 1928 of gosture- nautics ( language) 1895 boating cxerm!mo;craphy 1895 cises) . . 1904 Minaenn . . 188(5 navalrse . . 1918 Minnie .. 188fi navaliat .. 1920 mind-curist . . 1904 minder ( = machinein inder) .. 1838

In or.e of the "Letters of Henry Adams," recently edited by Mr Worth* ington Chauncey Ford, there is a description of his fiancee, written for his friend Gaskcll. "Even in love," says a "New York Times" reviewer, "his gift for reducing personalities, including his own, to their component parts did not desert him":

Imprimis and to begin with (he writes), the you rig woman colis herself Marian Hooper, and belongs to a sort of clan, at all Dostonions do. Through h «r mother who is not living, she is half Sturgia, and Russell Sturgis of the Barings is a fourth cousin, or thereabouts. Socially tlie match is supposed to be unexceptionable. One rl mv conirralulatory 'otters df»sorihj?s my fiance© to me tts " a charming blue. bno ia certainiy tiot handsome, nor would she be called quite p'ain, I think. She is 2* years old [Adams was then 34j. She knowß her own mind uncommon well. fahe does not talk very American. Her manners are quiet. She roads German —also Latin also, 1 fear, a little Greek, but very little. She talks garrulously. Wit on tne whole pretty sensibly. She is very open to m struction We shall improve her. She drosses badly. Slio decidedly has humoui and will appreciate our wit. She has enough money to be quite independent. She rules tne as only American women rule men, and I cower before her. Lord I how she would lash me if she read the above description of herl My young female lias a very active and quick mind, and has run over many things, but she really knows nothing well and lauphn at the idea of being thought a blue. She commissions me to tell you that she would add a few lines to this letter, but unfortunately she is unable to spell. I think you will like her, not for beauty, for she Is certainly not beautiful, and her features arc? much too prominent; but for intelligence and sympathy, which are what hold n.e. She is quite ready to like you indefinitely, and as she is fond of society and amusement, I do not fear har separating; me from my friends.

The celebration of Virgil's hi-millen-tiium was begun at Mantua, the poet's birthplace, by the opening of a park called "The Wood of Virgil," in which ovcry tree and flower mentioned in the "Georgics" has been planted.