Meaning of mixen | Babel Free

Definitions

A compost heap or dunghill.

Examples

“[I]f we have⟳ fish⟳ at all / Let⟳ them be gold; and charge the gardeners now / To pick⟳ the faded creature from the pool, / And cast⟳ it on the mixen that it die⟳.”

“Something of this occurred to him even in his wrath with me, for he spoke very softly to the filly, who now could scarce subdue herself; but she drew in her nostrils, and breathed to his breath and did all she could to answer⟳ him. 'Not too hard, my dear,' he said: 'led him gently down on the mixen. That will be quite enough.' Then he turned the saddle off, and I was up in a moment.”

“"I reckon that's the size o't," said Coggan, working along without looking up. "Well, better wed over the mixen than over the moor," said Laban Tall, turning his sheep.”

“=To the chest they came, for the keys asked; manifest was their grudge, when therein they looked. Of those children he the heads cut⟳ off, and under the prison's mixen laid their bodies.”

“Close⟳ by the door stood the mixen, a collection of every abomination streams from which, in rainy weather, fertilized the lower meadows, generally the lord's pasture, and polluted the stream.”

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