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Etymology
From Middle English misten, from Old English mistian. Cognate with English misting.
Pronunciation
Verb
mistern
- Being covered by tears.
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:Our eein wode b' mistern t' dearnt up ee skee.- Our eyes would be
dazzled to look up to the sky.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57