mistihead

Middle English

Noun

mistihead

1. (nonce word) mistiness
   • 14th c., Geoffrey Chaucer, A Goodly Ballad of Chaucer; republished as David Laing Purves, compiler, The Canterbury Tales with Other Poems, 1870:

     And Phoebus your father, with his streames red, / Adorns the morrow, consuming the sort / Of misty cloudes, that would overlade / True humble heartes with their mistihead.

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References

• “mistihead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.