Mihilmas

English

Proper noun

Mihilmas

  1. (dialect) Obsolete spelling of Michaelmas.
    • 1837 July, J. A. Wade, “Darby the Swift:  […]”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume II, number VII, page 72:
      ‘Who’s there?’ says I. ‘Where?’ says it, on th’ other side. ‘ Anywhere,’ says I, ‘to plaze ye;’ and wid that I fell into a could sweat, for I began to think it was Mihilmas Eve, an’ divil a grain of salt I had about me to keep me from harm!
    • 1840, Thomas Gage, “New Rowley, or Second Parish, first settled”, in The History of Rowley, Anciently Including Bradford, Boxford, and Georgetown, From the Year 1639 to the Present Time, Boston: Ferdinand Andrews, page 323:
      […] what he doth pay in fat cattell, he is to pay at or before Mihilmas […]
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