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Definition of Mixens
1. mixen [n] - See also: mixen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mixens
Literary usage of Mixens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social History of the People of the Southern Counties of England in Past by George Roberts (1856)
"Dung- mixens in the Streets, §r. — The Streets straitened by sundry Erections.
OUR ancestors were in many particulars very attentive to certain sanitary ..."
2. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley (1892)
"mixens of farmyard manure, that U to say, ... mixens should be kept turned so
that no weeds may grow upon them, and farms and their outside« kept free from ..."
3. A Compendium of Modern Husbandry: Principally Written During a Survey of by James Malcolm (1805)
"In the environs of the metropolis, those mixens are either the produce of St.
George's Fields, within the Borough of Southwark, and a compound of horse-dung ..."
4. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1865)
"... either in the yard of the said farm or in mixens, on being paid for the cartage
of the same according to custom ; and the plaintiff claimed 1001. Pleas. ..."
5. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex: With Observations on by Messrs. Griggs (Firm), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), Great Britain (1794)
"... are a good and profitable intervening crop, and may be continued for two or
three years successively They may be planted on mixens made on the hedge ..."
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