Definition of Miring

1. Verb. (present participle of mire) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Miring

1. mire [v] - See also: mire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Miring

mirepoix
mires
mirex
mirexes
mirid
mirid bug
mirids
mirier
miriest
mirific
mirifical
mirificent
mirin
miriness
mirinesses
miring (current term)
mirins
miriti
miritis
mirk
mirken
mirker
mirkest
mirkier
mirkiest
mirkily
mirks
mirksome
mirky

Literary usage of Miring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"Banks of these Fossil Shells far Inland. — miring of Cattle. —Yellow Fever at Mobile in 1839. — Fire in same Year. — Voyage from Mobile to New Orleans. ..."

2. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"Control measures include early threshing of the grain for the destruction of larvae of S. cretica and rolling the ground and miring naphthaline with the ..."

3. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1807)
"... to exemplify the narrative, which we cannot read 'without wdt miring the intelligent officer in the ..."

4. Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the by Charles Lyell (1832)
"... many of these changes—Sources of Bog Iron-ore—Preservation of animal substances in Peat—Causes of its antiseptic property—miring of quadrupeds- Bursting ..."

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