Mitten
['mɪt(ə)n] or ['mɪtn]
Definition
(noun.) glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together.
Checked by Edwin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
(n.) A cover for the wrist and forearm.
Typed by Frank
Definition
n. a kind of glove for winter use without a separate cover for each finger: a glove for the hand and wrist but not the fingers.—v.t. to put mittens on.—Get the mitten to be rejected as a lover.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Something a tender-hearted girl gives a young man when she knows she is going to make it chilly for him.
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Examples
- Presently my man sat me down by a tank of hot water, drenched me well, gloved his hand with a coarse mitten, and began to polish me all over with it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He bore hard on his mitten, and from under it rolled little cylinders, like maccaroni. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Shall I put up the pattern of mittens? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Handle your tools without mittens; remember that _The cat in gloves catches no mice_, as Poor Richard says. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She generally wore mittens, and she now laid down her work, and smoothed those mittens. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- When I have changed my mittens, I shall be all in black. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I don't know who it can be,' said Mrs. Sparsit, wiping her mouth and arranging her mittens. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Very engaging, sir,' said Mrs. Sparsit, causing her mittens slowly to revolve over one another. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Funny angels in hoods and mittens, said Jo, and set them to laughing. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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