See Also:

pistia (iou) and mug(1) (iou)


pistia (iou)



pistia noun. M18.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Greek pistos drinkable, liquid (perh. alluding to its deriving its nutriment from water).]
A floating water-plant, Pistia stratiotes (family Araceae), allied to the duckweeds, which covers the surface of ponds and reservoirs in warm countries. Also called water lettuce.

mug(1) (iou)



mug noun1. E16.
[Prob. of Scandinavian origin (cf. Norwegian mugge, Swedish mugg pitcher with a handle), ult. origin unkn. See also MUG noun3.]
A (large) earthenware vessel or bowl; a pot, a jug, a ewer. Scot. & north. E16.
A drinking-vessel, usu. cylindrical and with a handle and used without a saucer. M17.
J. Glassco The tea came in thick ironstone mugs. M. M. R. Khan A mug with a handle..for morning coffee.
b. A mug with the drink it contains; the contents of a mug; a mugful. L17.
J. Howker He hadn't touched the mug of tea I'd made for him.
A kind of cooling drink. Now rare or obsolete. E19.
Comb.: mug-house (a) arch. a public house; mug-house club (Hist.), any of various political clubs of Hanoverian sympathies meeting at public houses; (b) dial. a pottery.
mugful noun the contents of a mug; as much as a mug will hold: M19.