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mēio , ĕre, v. n. for migio, kindred with Sanscr. mih, effundere; whence also mingo; cf. Gr. ὀμιχέω, ὀμίχλη,
I.to make water: “sacer est locus, extra Meiite,Pers. 1, 114: “HOSPES AD HVNC TVMVLVM NE MEIAS,Inscr. Orell. 4781: “mala meiens,Cat. 97, 8; cf. Juv. 1, 131. —Transf., of a vessel, Mart. 12, 32, 13.—In a double sense: “ditior aut formae melioris meiat eodem,Hor. S. 2, 7, 52.—Prov.: “caldum meiere et frigidum potare,” i. e. to give more than one receives, Petr. 67, 10.
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