Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at miter.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Miter.
Examples
-
Catholics start showing up in White and Yellow Miter caps.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro: Rick Perry's Revival as a Soccer Match? Joe The Nerd Ferraro 2011
-
J.B. Miter had always remembered that line, although with all that birthed itself during those thirty days, he had hardly understood why.
When the Spring Dies Nathaniel Tower 2011
-
The response I got from most woodworkers was Miter joints?
A Framing Puzzle, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
-
Miter joint - The miter joint is used when you do not want the end grain of the wood to show.
-
Miter, rich garments, Gloves and all, leaving him nothing but his shirt, giving them all these severall parcels, protesting that there was nothing else.
The Decameron 2004
-
Miter or pastoral staff—for bishops, abbots, or abbesses
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
-
Miter or pastoral staff—for bishops, abbots, or abbesses
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
-
Shakspere's chirography was almost as variable as his mind, and when he sat down to compose plays for the Globe and Blackfriars theatres, in his room adjacent to the Miter Tavern, he dashed off chunks of thought for pressing and waiting actors and managers, piecing them together like a cabinet joiner or machinist.
Shakspere, Personal Recollections John A. Joyce
-
How often at the Miter or Falcon taverns have I seen these little great literary men swell like a toad or puff like a pigeon at the flattery bestowed on them by fawning bohemians, meaner than themselves, who sought a midnight snack and a tankard of foaming ale.
Shakspere, Personal Recollections John A. Joyce
-
J. Amery, at the Miter, the Flower de luce, and the Peacock, in Flret street.
The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford Henry Neville
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.