added a handful of hail."

Charles Fenno Hoffman, _Poems_ (1846).

=Mintz=, _alias_ Araminta Sophronia--the best cook and housemaid in
town--rules the Stackpole family with a rod of red-hot steel until the
son of the house defies her by marrying the head scholar in the Boston
Cooking School.--Augusta Larned, _Village Photographs_ (1887).

=Miol'ner= (3 _syl._), Thor's hammer.

This is my hammer, Mi[:o]lner the mighty;
Giants and sorcerers cannot withstand it.

Saemund Sigfusson, _Edda_ (1130).

=Miquelets= (_Les_), soldiers of the Pyrenees, sent to co-operate with the
dragoons of the _Grand Monarque_ against the Camisards of the Cevennes.

=Mir'abel=, the "wild goose," a travelled Monsieur, who loves women in a
loose way, but abhors matrimony, and especially dislikes Oria'na; but
Oriana "chases" the "wild goose" with her woman's wiles, and catches
him.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Wild-goose Chase_ (1652).

_Mirabel_ (_Old_). He adores his son, and wishes him to marry Oria'na.
As the young man shilly-shallies, the father enters into several schemes
to entrap him into a declaration of love; but all his schemes are
abortive.

_Young Mirabel_, the son, called "the inconstant." A handsome, dashing
young rake, who loves Oriana, but does not wish to marry. Whenever
Oriana seems lost to him the ardor of his love revives; but immediately
his path is made plain, he holds off. However, he ultimately marries
her.--G. Farquhar, _The Inconstant_ (1702).

=Mirabell= (_Edward_), in love with Millamant. He liked her, "with all her
faults; nay, liked her for her faults, ... which were so natural that
(in his opinion) they became her."--W. Congreve, _The Way of the World_
(1700).

Not all that Drury Lane affords
Can paint the rakish "Charles" so well,
Or give such life to "Mirabell"
[_As Montague Talbot_, 1778-1831].

Crofton Croker.

=Mirabella=, "a maiden fair, clad in mourning weeds, upon a mangy jade
unmeetly set, with a lewd fool called Disdain" (canto 6). Timias and
Serena, after quitting the hermit's cell, meet her. Though so sorely
clad and mounted, the maiden was "a lady of great dignity and honor, but
scornful and proud." Many a wretch did languish for her through a long
life. Being summoned to Cupid's judgment hall, the sentence passed on
her was that she should "ride on a mangy jade, accompanied by a fool,
till she had saved as many lovers as she had slain" (can