The Collaborative International Dictionary
Missel \Mis"sel\, n. Mistletoe. [Obs.]
Missel bird, Missel thrush (Zo["o]l.), a large European thrush ( Turdus viscivorus) which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English mistel "basil, mistletoe," from Proto-Germanic *mikhstilaz (cognates: Old Saxon mistil, Dutch mistel, Old High German mistil, German Mistel, Swedish mistel), of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) mistletoe
WordNet
Usage examples of "missel".
The gadget Missel made works, so we can probably use electrical or nervous spectrum weaponry.
Deep in the bowels of the police electronic lab, Missel shook his head yet again.
A pair of Missel Thrush seeing a peacock too near their nest, charged full at him, and actually knocked him down.
She would never again feel like a missel thrush with a safe-hidden nest.
But that missel point, if such it actually is, gives one to wonder if their nemesis was really the Ahrmehnee.
She jumped, until she realized it was a small, brown missel thrush with a white breast.
The missel thrush resumed her song, sweetly serenading the lovers while they took full advantage of their seclusion.
Tha's courtin' some bold young madam somewhere tellin' thy lies to her about bein' th' finest cock robin on Missel Moor an' ready to fight all th' rest of 'em.
The thrush is the great disseminator of the Mistletoe, devouring the berries eagerly, from which the Missel Thrush is said by some to derive its name.
Angling and disputing for positions at her feet and over various parts of her accommodating body were a whitethroat, a fieldfare, a willowwren, a nuthatch, a tree-pipit, a sand martin, a red-backed shrike, a goldfinch, a yellow bunting, two jays, a greater spotted woodpecker, three moorhens (on her lap with a mallard, a woodcock, and a curlew), a wagtail, four missel thrushes, six blackbirds, a nightingale and twentyseven sparrows.