Jastrow: מִיצּוּי

מִיצּוּי, מִצּ׳ m. (מָצָה) 1) squeezing, wringing out (of the blood of the sacrifice). Zeb. 52ᵃ. Ib. 65ᵃ; a. fr. —2) (cmp. בֵּירוּר) exact measure. Bets. III, 8 אף בחול … מפני מ׳ המדות in week-days he did the same (filled the measures beforehand) for the sake of exact measure (in order to allow the liquids to settle). Ib. 29ᵃ they collected three hundred garab of oil ממ׳ המדות as the surplus in his accounts realized from the remnants in the measures; Tosef. ib. III, 8 (v. ed. Zuck. Var.).—Trnsf. מ׳ הנפש [the squeezing of the soul out of the body,] agony of death. Tanḥ. Mick. 10 (ref. to מְצֹא, Ps. XXXII, 6) יתפלל על מ׳ הנ׳ let him pray that he may be spared the agony of death.—מ׳ היום [the pressing through of the day,] sunrise and sunset. Gen. R. s. 92 (ref. to Ps. l. c.) לעת מ׳ היום at evening-time; Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵇ bot. לעת מִיצּוּיָו של יום (pl.) at morning and at evening, v. דִּמְדּוּם.—מ׳ הדין final (exact) judgment (after death); מ׳ החשבון final count (of sins). Gen. R. l. c.—Pl. מִיצּוּיִין, with suffix מִיצּוּיָו (cmp. מְנוּיָו for מְנוּיָיו s. v. מָנָה); v. supra.