mistrail

plural mistrails

1. alternativeAlternative form of mistral (“type of wind”).

   The mistrail is charged with positive ions.

   1965, Rutgers Pharmacy Extension News - Volumes 16-20

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   Heat, dust, bustle, and confusion, not unattended with great excitement, prevail during the long summer's day. Equal bustle and confusion, with mud, and the "mistrail," or north-west wind, that of winter.

   1856, Herbert Byng Hall, Sayah Or, The Courier to the East, page 9

   Hyères (Var), a small town well sheltered from the north wind, exposed to the full south, four kilometers from the sea, but insufficiently protected against the mistrail; the thermometer rarely sinks below zero.

   1872, Alphonse Donne, Change of Air and Scene: a Physicians Hints

   Impressing them as pattering rain upon a Rhino's hide, Or like the Mistrail's hail affects the rocky mountain side.

   1912, Seymour Supercern, Truth Will Out: An Emergence from Chaos and Subterfuge Into Light and Reality, page 49

present singular third person mistrails · participle present mistrailing · participle past mistrailed · past mistrailed

1. ambitransitiveTo gallop in such a way that the rear hoof lands in line with the place where the front hoof on the opposite side landed.

   dépister, v.r., (man.) to mistrail (said of the gallop when the imprint of the rear foot is in front of or behind that of the diagonal anterior).

   1899, Cornélis De Witt Willcox, A French-English Military Technical Dictionary, page 127

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   again, the imprint of the posterior foot in question may be made in front or behind that the diagonal anterior foot, and then the horse mistrails himself (se dépiste) .

   1892, Armand Goubaux, Gustave Barrier, Simon J. J. Harger, The Exterior of the Horse, page 475