Definition of "mirtle" [mirtle]

• An obsolete spelling of myrtle. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I'll miss my 'mirtle' tab at the top of my browser, and it, once clicked, bringing me to the maroony stylings of this blog."
• "Indians used for "sicknesse and paine of the belly"?); the fruits of a tree similar to the "mirtle" helped the doctor to face the epidemics of dysentery."
• "Along the way they gathered branches of willow, mirtle, and palm to shake and wave in the great parade."