mith

See also: miþ

English

Noun

mith (uncountable)

  1. (fantasy, chiefly video games, informal) Clipping of mithril.
    • 1996 December 18, Jerry Caveney, “Daggerfall: Spells as an assassin? How? (and a couple other things)”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg‎[1] (Usenet):
      the User's Guide is screwed up on lots of things. Mith and Ada seem to be the same, and Orcish is second best (green), behind Daedric (red). Once you can find some daedric, it will last nearly forever.
    • 1997 April 21, JOxenre189, “Mithril Ring”, in alt.mud.majormud‎[2] (Usenet):
      Where does the mith ring come from? shop or monster?
    • 1999 August 16, Jace R. Croox, “Mithril Chainmail???”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate‎[3] (Usenet):
      You can cast in elven chain not mith chain (or dwarven chain as Drizzt's is).
    • 1999 December 10, <demonik...@demonic.com>, “Whoa! Ykesha's not dropping either?”, in alt.games.everquest‎[4] (Usenet):
      Silvery plated legs, dark reaver, mith 2Her, exe axe, exe hood, smr, runed mithril tunic, runed falchion, froggy king crown, brig tunic, darkmail gaunts, azure sleeves, tbb... There are plenty of reasons to go to guk without the SSoY or the Guise there.
    • 2003 July 17, Bruno Newman, “Troll weaponsmith questions...”, in rec.games.roguelike.adom‎[5] (Usenet):
      Have Smithing (100) and Metallurgy (100) and when using the forge, it just asks for an item to work on...and an ingot to use.....so...anyone know how to melt those spare mith/ada/eter weapons ?
    • 2005 August 14–16, Link, “YAAP -- Link the Male Human Neutral Tourist”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack‎[6] (Usenet):
      Amulets […] o - 21 blessed +6 darts named mith DL7 dwarmith DL9 stuff DL9 (in quiver) […] "mith DL7 dwarmith DL9 stuff DL9" = elven mithril on gnomish mines level 7, dwarvish mithril on gnomish mines level 9, stuff (which was a bunch of weapons, which included a broad pick and a runed broadsword) on gnomish mines level 9.
    • 2007 July 22, <gwegnge...@gmail.com>, “$$$welcome to buy runescape money […]”, in mtl.forsale-vendre‎[7] (Usenet):
      Mine mith ore and coal smelt it in to[sic] bars and sell […]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mith.

Old Saxon

Preposition

mith

  1. alternative form of mid