Chapter Milesians to Mincing Lane of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

The Milton of Germany, Frederick Gottlieb Klopstock, author of The Messiah, an epic poem (1724–1803).

A very German Milton indeed.
   —Coleridge.

Milton’s Monument, in Westminster Abbey, was by Rysbrack.

Milvey (The Rev. Frank), a “young man expensively educated and wretchedly paid, with quite a young wife and half a dozen young children. He was under the necessity of teaching…to eke out his scanty means, yet was generally expected to have more time to spare than the idlest person in the parish, and more money than the richest.”

Mrs. Milvey (Margaretta), a pretty, bright little woman, emphatic and impulsive, but “something worn by anxiety. She had repressed many pretty tastes and bright fancies, and substituted instead schools, soup, flannel, coals, and all the week-day cares and Sunday coughs of a large population, young and old.”—Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (1864).

Minagrobis, admiral of the cats in the great sea-fight of the cats and rats. Minagrobis won the victory by devouring the admiral of the rats, who had made three voyages round the world in very excellent ships, in which he was neither one of the officers nor one of the crew, but a kind of interloper.—Cointesse D’Aulnoy: Fairy Tales (“The White Cat,” 1682).

Mincing, lady’s-maid to Millamant. She says mem, for “ma’am” fit for “fought,” la’ship for “ladyship,” etc.—Congreve: The Way of the World (1700).

Mincing Lane (London), a corruption of Minicen Lane. So called from the Minicens or nuns of St. Helen, who had tenements in Bishopsgate Street.