mitre

plural mitres · alternative US miter

1. A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many reincarnations, most recently as a tall cap with two points or peaks.

   —Gracious Heaven! cried I, kneeling down upon the last step but one in my ascent, grant me but health, thou great Bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion,—and shower down thy mitres, if it seems good unto thy divine providence, upon those heads which are aching for them!

   1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC

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   And so, spurring Rocinante, he rode forward, leaving them all amazed at having seen and observed both his strange figure and the intelligence of his servant, for that is what they judged Sancho to be. And another of the peasants said: "If the servant is this intelligent, what must the master be like? I'll bet if they went to study in Salamanca, in the wink of an eye they'd be magistrates; everything's deceit except studying and more studying, and having favor and good luck; when a man least expects it, he finds himself with a staff in his hand or a mitre on his head."

   1605 (Part One), 1615 (Part Two), Translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, page 896

2. The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction affected by two bevelled ends or edges; a mitral joint.
3. historicalhobbiesA 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
4. A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
5. A gusset in sewing, etc.
6. raregeometryA square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.
7. A mitre shell

present singular third person mitres · participle present mitring · participle past mitred · past mitred · alternative US miter

1. CommonwealthTo adorn with a mitre.
2. CommonwealthTo unite at an angle of 45°.

   The bartizans have each a peculiar angle shaft on the outer face, which mitres into the string-course at bottom, and probably supported a shield with coat of arms or a crest or other ornament rising above the parapet

   1887, David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross., The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century

1. A locality in the Rural City of Horsham and the Shire of West Wimmera, western Victoria, Australia.