mitigé, -e, part., mitigated. Peine —e; modified penalty.
mitiger, v.a., to mitigate, to soften, to make less severe, to modify, to temper, to allay, to assuage, to abate; to qualify.
miton, n.m., woman’s long mitten.
mitonnage, n.m., simmering.
mitonner, v.n., to lie soaking or stewing; to soak, to stew, to simmer.
mitonner, v.a., to cocker, to fondle, to cuddle. — quelqu’un; to humor any one. — une affaire; to prepare an affair gradually. Il aime qu’on le mitonne; he likes to be cockered.
se mitonner, v.r., to nurse one’s self, to cocker one’s self; (cook.) to simmer.
mitoyen, -ne (mi-toa-yin, -iè-n), adj., middle; intermediate; midway; joint property. Mur —; party-wall. Cloison —ne; partition wall between two rooms.
mitoyenneté (-toa-ie-n-té), n.f., joint property; claims of two neighbors to a wall, hedge, or ditch; party-right.
*mitraillade, n.f., discharge, fire of grape-shot.