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Definition of Mizens
1. mizen [n] - See also: mizen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mizens
Literary usage of Mizens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets: Never Before in Any Language Truly by Homer, George Chapman, William Cooke Taylor (1843)
"Apollo with a fore-right wind their swelling bark inspir'd : The top-mast hoisted,
milk-white sails on his round breast they put; The mizens ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"Those for the .heads of main and fore courses to he four to six inches wide ;
for sprit courses and mizens, drivers, and other boom sails, ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"... and Beau mizens of subsequent comedy. The plays of Baker, all of them comedies,
consist of : 1. ' Humour of the Age,' 4to, 1701, played the same year at ..."
4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1859)
"... with the admission of an inferior c .1* ot mizens to the franchise, the
comparison •kick Gem (De Leg. iii. 7, De Rep. ii. ..."
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