MISDEMEANOUR Misdemeanour (mis-de-men'êr), n. 1. Ill behaviour; evil conduct; fault."That God takes a particular notice of our personal misdemeanours.' South.-2. In law, an offence of a less atrocious nature than a crime. Crimes and misdemeanours are mere syonymous terms; but in common usage the word crime is made to denote offences of a deeper and more atrocious dye, while all indictable offences which do not amount to felony, as perjury, libels, conspiracies, assaults, &c., are comprised under the name of misdemeanours.-3.† Mismanagement; mistake in management or treatment. Some natural fault in the soil, or misdemeanour in the owners. Seasonable Sermon, 1644. SYN. Misdeed, misconduct, misbehaviour, fault, trespass, transgression. To part or distribute Misdeparte,t v.t. wrongly or unequally. He misdeparteth riches temporal. Chaucer. Misderive (mis-de-riv'), v. t. 1. To err in deriving; as, to misderive a word.-2.† To divert improperly; to misdirect. Misderiving the well-meant devotions of charitable and pious souls into a wrong channel.' Bp. Hall. Misdescribe (mis-de-skrib'), v. t. To describe falsely or erroneously. Misdesert (mis-de-zért),n. Ill-desert. Spen ser. Misdevotion (mis-de-vo'shon), n. Misdirected devotion; mistaken piety. A place where misdevotion frames. A thousand prayers to saints, whose very names The church knew not, heav'n knows not yet. Donne. Misdiett (mis-di'et), n. Improper diet or food. Spenser. Misdiet (mis-di'et), v.t. To supply with improper or injurious food; to diet irregularly or improperly. Misdight (mis-dit'), a. Badly dressed. Spenser. Misdirect (mis-di-rekt), v. t. 1. To give a wrong direction to; to turn into a wrong course; as, to misdirect a person. 'Passion misdirected.' Shenstone.-2. To direct to a wrong person or place; as, to misdirect a letter. Misdirection (mis-di-rek'shon), n. A wrong direction. Misdispositiont (mis-dis' po-zi"shon), n. Bad disposition or inclination; inclination to evil. Bp. Hall. Misdistinguish (mis-dis-ting'gwish), v. t. or i. To distinguish wrongly or erroneously; to make false distinctions concerning. If we imagine a difference where there is none, because we distinguish where we should not, it may not be denied that we misdistinguish. Hooker. Misdivide (mis-di-vid'), v. t. To divide wrongly. Misdo (mis-dö'), v.t. or i. To do wrong; to do amiss; to commit a crime or fault. Afford me place to show what recompense Towards thee I intend for what I have misdone. Milton. Misdoer (mis-dö'èr), n. One who does wrong; one who commits a fault or crime. Misdoing (mis-dö'ing), n. A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offence. "To reform his misdoings.' Holinshed. Misdoubt (mis-dout'), n. 1. Suspicion of crime or danger. Misdread (mis-dred), n. Dread of evil. Mise (měz), n. [Norm. mise, Fr. mis, put, laid, pp. of mettre, L. mitto, to send.] 1. In law, the issue in real actions, especially in a writ of right.-2. Cost; expense; outlay. 3. A tax or tallage.-4. In Wales, formerly an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid in the county palatine of Chester at the change of the owner of the earldom.-5. A treaty or agreement; as, in English history, the mise of Lewes, 1264.-6. A mease or messuage. Miseaset (mis-ez), n. Uneasiness. Chaucer. Miseasy (mis-e'zi), a. Uneasy. Misedition (mis-e-di'shon), n. A spurious or incorrect edition. 'A misedition of the 180 Vulgate, which perverts the sense, by making a wrong stop in the sentence.' Bp. Hall. Miseducate (mis-ed'ü-kat), v. t. To educate wrongly. Mise-money (mez'mun-i), n. In law, money paid by way of contract or composition, to purchase any liberty, &c. Misemploy (mis-em-ploi), v.t. To employ to no purpose, or to a bad purpose; as, to misemploy time, power, advantages, talents, &c. 'Because 'tis sin to misemploy an hour.' Dryden. Misemployment (mis-em-ploi'ment), n. Ill employment; application to no purpose, or to a bad purpose; as, the misemployment of time or money. Misenter (mis-en'tér), v.t. To enter erroneously or by mistake; as, to misenter items in an account. Misentry (mis-en'tri), n. An erroneous entry or charge, as in an account. Miser (mizer), n. [L. miser, wretched, akin to mastus, sorrowful, and Gr. misos, hatred.] 1. A miserable person; one wretched or afflicted. Decrepid miser, base ignoble wretch.' Shak. Those pains that make the miser glad of death 2. A wretch; a mean fellow.-3. An extremely covetous person; a sordid wretch; a niggard; one who in wealth makes himself miserable by the fear of poverty. Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house. Shak. 4. An iron cylinder attached to the lower end of a boring rod, in which the earthy matters are collected, or misered-up, in the process of sinking shafts, wells, &c. The bottom is conical, with a valved opening, through which the earth can pass upwards. Miser (mizer), v.t. To collect in the interior of a boring-tool called a miser (which see): used with up. Miserable (miz'èr-a-bl), a. [Fr. misérable, L. miserabilis, from miser, wretched. See MISER.] 1. Very unhappy; suffering misery; wretched. The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. Shak. What hopes delude thee, miserable man? Dryden. 2. Filled with misery; abounding in misery; as, a miserable case; a miserable night.3. Causing unhappiness or misery. What's more miserable than discontent? Shak. 4. Very poor or mean; worthless; despicable; as, a miserable hut; miserable clothing; a miserable soil. Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2. 5. Niggardly; miserly. [Obsolete and Scotch.] The liberal-hearted man is, by the opinion of the prodigal, miserable; and by the judgment of the miserable, lavish. Hooker. SYN. Abject, forlorn, pitiable, wretched. Miserableness (miz'èr-a-bl-nes), n. The state or quality of being miserable. Miserably (miz'èr-a-bli), adv. In a miserable manner; unhappily; calamitously; very poorly or meanly; wretchedly. "Where you shall be so miserably entertained.' Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South. Miserationt (miz-ér-a'shon), n. Commiseration. Skelton. Miserect (mis-e-rekt), v. t. To erect wrongly; to erect with a wrong object. 'These miserected altars.' Bp. Hall. Miserere (mi-zē-re'rē), n. 1. The name of a H Miserere, from All-Souls College, Oxford. a, Miserere seat. b, Do. shut down. psalm in the Roman Catholic church service, taken from the fifty-seventh Psalm, beginning in the Vulgate, 'Miserere mei, MISFORMATION Domine' ('Pity me, O Lord'), often presented by the ordinary to such malefactors, about to suffer death, as had the benefit of clergy allowed them, in order that they might show if they could read.-2. A lamentation. No more ay-mees and misereres, Tranio. Beau, & Fl 3. A piece of music composed to the psalm known as the Miserere; as, the miserere of Allegri, &c.-4. A projecting bracket on the under side of a hinged seat in a stall of a church; the seat and bracket together. The bracket served as a rest for a person standing, the seat being turned up. Also called Misericorde, n. [Fr. 1. Mercy; pity. Misericordia. Chaucer.-2. Same as Misericordia, 2 and 3. Misericordia (miz'e-ri-kor'di-a), n. [L, mercy, from misericors, tender-hearted, from miser, wretched, and cor, the heart.] 1. In law, an arbitrary fine imposed on any person for an offence, so called because the amercement ought to be but small, and less than that required by Magna Charta.-2. A narrow-bladed dagger used by a knight in the middle ages against a wounded adversary, when giving him the mercy or finishing stroke.-3. Same as Miserere, 4. Miserly (mizer-li), a. Like a miser in habits; pertaining to a miser; penurious; sordid; niggardly; parsimonious; as, a miserly person or a person of miserly habits. Misery (miz'èr-i), n. [L. miseria, from miser, wretched. See MISER.] 1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness. Shak. Misery makes sport to mock itself. 2. Calamity; misfortune; cause of misery. Better 'twere 3. Covetousness; miserliness. [Obsolete and Scotch.] He returned again to his old humour, which was born and bred with him, and that was avarice and misery. North. This also seems to be the meaning in the following passage from Shakspere: He covets less Than misery itself would give. Cor. ii. 2, 131. Here, however, it may have no other than the ordinary acceptation.-SYN. Wretchedness, torture, agony, torment, anguish, distress, calamity, misfortune. Misese,t n. Misease; uneasiness. Chaucer. Misesteem (mis-es-tem'), n. Disregard; disrespect. Misestimate (mis-es'tim-at), v. t. To estimate erroneously. While we misestimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance.' J. S. Mill. Misexpound (mis-eks-pound'), v.t. To expound erroneously. Misexpression (mis-eks-pre'shon), n. Wrong or improper expression. Baxter. Misfaith (mis-fath'), n. Want of faith or trust; distrust. A woman and not trusted, doubtless I Might feel some sudden turn of anger born Of your misfaith. Tennyson. Misfall (mis-fal'), v.t. or i. To befall unluckily. Spenser. Misfaret (mis-fär), n. Ill fare; misfortune. The whole occasion of his late misfare." Spenser. Misfare † (mis-far'), v.i. To fare ill; to go wrong or do wrong; to be unfortunate. Spenser. Misfaringt (mis-far'ing), n. 1. Misfortune. 2. Evil-doing. For all the rest do most-what fare amis And yet their own misfaring will not see. Spenser. Misfashion (mis-fa'shon), v.t. To form wrong. Hakewill. Misfeasance (mis-fe'zans), n. [Mis for Fr. prefix mes, wrong (L. minus), and faisance, from faire, to do.] In law, a trespass; a wrong done; also, the improper performance of some lawful act. Wharton. Misfeasor, Misfeazor (mis-fe'zêr),n. In law, a trespasser. Misfeazance (mis-fe'zans), n. Same as Misfeasance. Misfeignt (mis-fan'), v. i. To feign with ill design. Spenser. Misfit (mis-fit'), n. A wrong or bad fit; a bad match. There a number of these (artificial) eyes come over from France; but these are generally what we call misfits: they are sold cheap, and seldom match the other eye. Mayhew. Misform (mis-form), v.t. To make of an ill form; to put in an ill shape. Spenser. Misformation (mis-form-a'shon), n. An irregularity of formation; malformation. MISFORTUNATE Misfortunate (mis-fortü-nāt), a. 1.† Producing misfortune.-2. Unfortunate. [Scotch.] Misfortune (mis-for'tün), n. Ill fortune; ill luck; calamity; some accident that prejudicially affects one's condition in life; as, he had the misfortune of losing his property. 'Amazed at my misfortunes." Shak. And every object that might make me fear misfor toe to my ventures, out of doubt would make me sad. Shak. Consider why the change was wrought, -Misfortune, Calamity, Disaster. Misfor tune is the more general term, and in its widest use includes both the others. As generally used, however, it is applied to untoward events of a less severe kind affecting individuals. Calamity is applied to great public or family misfortunes implying widespread mischief. A disaster is an untoward event generally of great importance effec tually marring or ruining a particular plan, course, or condition of things. Losses in trade, and even the overturn of a carriage on the road are disasters. A war is a great calamity to a nation, and entails misfortunes on individuals. Whately. This was a real disaster to us, as by retarding us half a day, it broke the chain of our stages, and laid us under the disagreeable necessity of stopping each ensuing night at a very bad inn. H. Swinburne. SYN. Mishap, mischance, misadventure, ill, harm, calamity, disaster. Misfortunet (mis-for'tün), v.i. To fall out unfortunately or unhappily; to fail or miscarry. Stow. Misfortuned (mis-for'tünd), a. UnfortunA misfortuned wedlock.' Milton. Misforyeve, v.t. To misgive. Chaucer. Misframe (mis-fram'), v.t. To frame wrongly or amiss. Sir T. More. Misget (mis-get'), v.t. To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means. Gower. ate. Misgive (mis-giv'), v.t. pret. misgave; pp. misgiven ppr. misgiving. 1. To give or grant amiss. Laud.-2. To fill with doubt; to deprive of confidence; to fail: nsually with 'heart' or 'mind,' &c., as subject, and a pronoun as object, but also used without an object. 'Whose consciences misgave them.' Milton. So doth my heart misgive me. Shak. Addison. Shak His heart isgave him. Fetch me the handkerchief: my mind misgives. Misgiving (mis-giv'ing), n. A failing of confidence; doubt; distrust. Doubts, suspicions, and misgivings.' South. 'Tis never woman's part Out of her fond misgivings to perplex The fortunes of the man to whom she cleaves. Talfourd. Misgo (mis-gō'), v.i. 1. To go wrong; to go astray. Chaucer; Spenser.-2. To miscarry. Carlyle. [Rare.] Misgon, Misgo,† pp. of misgo. Gone wrong. Chaucer. Misgotten (mis-got'n), a. Unjustly obtained. Spenser. Misgovern (mis-gu'vèrn), v.t. To govern ill; to administer unfaithfully. Solyman charged him bitterly that he had misgoverned the state. Knolles. Misgoverned (mis-gu'vèrnd), p. and a. 1. III governed; badly administered. - 2. Rude; unrestrained. Rude, misgoverned hands, from window tops, Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head. Shak. Misgovernment (mis-gu'vern-ment). n. 1. Bad administration or management of public or private affairs. 'Public misgovernment.' Sir W. Raleigh. "The misgovernment of James.' Macaulay.-2. Want of self-restraint; irregularity in conduct; loose conduct; licentiousness. Shak. Misgracious † (mis-gra'shus), a. Not gracious or agreeable; ungracious; ungrateful. Gower. Misgrafft (mis-graf'), v. t. Same as Misgraft. The course of true love never did run smooth; But either it was different in blood, Or else misgraffed, in respect of years. Shak. Misgraft (mis-graft'), v.t. To graft amiss; to graft on a wrong or unsuitable stock. Misground (mis-ground'), v. t. To found falsely or erroneously. Bp. Hall. [Rare.] Misgrowth (mis-grōth),n." A wrong growth. Misguess (mis-ges'), v.t. or i wrongly or erroneously. Sir T. More. To guess 181 Misguggle, Misgoggle, Misgrugle (misgugl, mis-gog'l, mis-grug'l), v.t. To mangle and disfigure; to spoil; to rumple; to handle roughly. Sir W. Scott. [Scotch.] Misguidance (mis-gid'ans), n. Wrong direction; guidance into error. He causes an error in his choice, the misguidance of which must naturally engage him to his de struction, South. Misguide (mis-gid'), v.t. pret. & pp. misguided; ppr. misguiding. 1. To lead or guide into error; to direct ill; to direct to a wrong purpose or end; as, to misguide the understanding or mind. Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee; and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords! Shak. 2. To ill-use; to maltreat. [Scotch.] Misguidet (mis-gid), n. Misguidance; guidance into error; hence, trespass; error; sin. Spenser. Misguided (mis-gid'ed), p. and a. Led astray by evil counsel or wrong direction; as, never Misguidingly (mis-gid′ing-li), adv. In such was prince more misguided. a way as to mislead. Misgye,t v.t. To misguide. Chaucer. Mishandle (mis-han'dl), v.t. To maltreat. Sir T. More. Mishanter, Mischanter (mi-shant'èr, mischant'èr), n. [For mis-aunter, that is misadventure, aunter being an old form of adventure: the form mischanter has no doubt arisen through the influence of mischance.] Misfortune; disaster; an unlucky chance. [Scotch.] Mishap (mis-hap), n. Mischance; evil accident; ill luck; misfortune. 'Secure from worldly chances and mishaps.' Shak. Mishaps are mastered by advice discreet, And counsel mitigates the greatest smart. Spenser. SYN. Misfortune, mischance, accident, dis aster. Mishappen (mis-hap'n), v.i. To happen ill. 'Afraid lest to themselves the like mishappen might. Spenser. Mishapping,t ́ppr. Falling out amiss. Chaucer. Mishear (mis-her),v.t. To mistake in hearing. It is not so; thou hast mispoke misheard. Shak. Mish-mash (mish'mash), n. [A reduplicated word, formed from or allied to mash.] A mingle or hotch-potch. Their language... (is) a mish-mash of Arabic and Portuguese. Sir T. Herbert. Mishmee-bitter (mish'mē-bit-tèr), n. The root of a ranunculaceous plant, Coptis Teeta, found in the mountainous regions (the Mishmee hills) on the borders of China and India, held in high esteem in the East as a tonic and stomachic. Mishna (mish'na), n. [Heb. mishnah, repetition, explanation, from shanah, to repeat.] A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture. The Jews pretend that when God gave the written law to Moses, he gave him also another, not written, which was preserved by tradition among the doctors of the synagogue, till Rabbi Jehudah, surnamed the holy, reduced it to writing about the end of the second century A.D. The Mishna is divided into six parts; the first relates to agriculture; the second regulates the manner of observing festivals; the third treats of women and matrimonial cases; the fourth of losses in trade, &c.; the fifth is on oblations, sacrifices, &c.; and the sixth treats of the several sorts of purification. Spelled also Mischna. See TALMUD. Mishnic (mish'nik), a. Pertaining or relating to the Mishna. Misimagination+ (mis-im-aj'in-a"shon), n. Wrong imagination or conception; delusion. Who can without indignation look upon the prodigies which this misimagination produces in that other sex? Bp. Hall. Misimprove (mis-im-pröv'), v.t. To fail to improve or make a good use of; to misapply; to abuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages. South. Misimprovement (mis-im-pröv'ment), n. Ill use or employment; application to a bad purpose; misapplication. South. Misincline (mis-in-klin'), v.t. To cause to incline wrongly; to give a bad direction or inclination to. Our judgments are perverted, our wills depraved, and our affections misinclined, and set upon vile and unworthy objects. South. Misinfer (mis-in-fér'), v. t. To infer wrongly. Hooker. MISLEAD Misinfer (mis-in-fér), v.i. To draw a wrong inference. Misinform (mis-in-form'), v.t. To give erroneous information to; to communicate an incorrect statement of facts to; as, he misinformed me as to his intentions. By no means trust to your servants who mislead you or misinform you. Bacon. Misinformant (mis-in-form'ant), n. One who misinforms or gives false information. Misinformation (mis'in-form-a"shon), n. Wrong information; false account or intelligence received. So the same misinformation or groundless alarm often draws down vengeance on a town or district. Brougham. Misinformer (mis-in-form'èr), n. One that gives wrong information. "The slanderous tongues of his misinformers.' Bp. Hall. Misinstruct (mis-in-strukt'), v.t. To instruct amiss. Hooker. Misinstruction (mis-in-struk'shon), n. Wrong instruction. Dr. H. More. Misintelligence (mis-in-tel'li-jens), n. 1. Wrong information.-2. † Misunderstanding; disagreement. He lamented the misintelligence he observed to be between their majesties. Clarendon. Misintend+ (mis-in-tend'), v.t. To misdirect; to aim ill. When suddenly, with twinkle of her eye, The damsel broke his misintended dart. Spenser. To Misinterpret (mis-in-ter'pret), v.t. interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense. Shak. 'Several passages misquoted and misinterpreted.' Arbuthnot. Misinterpretable (mis-in-tér'pret-a-bl), a. Liable to misinterpretation. Donne. Misinterpretation (mis-in-ter'pret-ā"shon), n. The act of interpreting erroneously. Misinterpreter (mis-in-tér'pret-er), n. One who interprets erroneously. Misintreat (mis-in-trēt'), v.t. To treat injuriously; to maltreat; to act infuriously towards. Grafton. Misjoin (mis-join'), v.t. To join unfitly or improperly. Milton; Dryden. Misjoinder (mis-join'der), n. In law, a joining of parties in a suit or action who ought not to have been so joined. Misjudge (mis-juj'), v.t. To mistake in judging of; to judge erroneously. misjudge the matter." Sir R. L'Estrange. Misjudge (mis-juj'), v.i. To err in judgment; to form false opinions or notions. Too long, misjudging, have I thought thee wise. Pope. Misjudgment (mis-juj'ment), n. A wrong or unjust determination. Misken (mis-ken), v. t. To be or appear to be ignorant of. [Scotch.] you. 'We Were I you, I would be for miskenning Sir Duncan, keeping my own secret, and departing quietly by suffocation, like your ancestors before Sir W. Scott. Miskent (mis'ken), n. [Formixen (=miksen), by metathesis.] A mixen; a dunghill. And would you mellow my young pretty mistress In such a misken ! Beau. & FL. Miskenning + (mis-ken'ing), n. In law, wrongful citation. Wharton. Miskin (mis'kin), n. A little bagpipe. Now would I tune my miskins on the green. Drayton. Miskindle (mis-kin'dl), v.t. To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose. "The miskindled heat of some unruly spirits.' Bp. Hall. Misknow (mis-no'), v.t. Not to know; to misapprehend. There is nothing in the world that they do more misknow than themselves. Bp. Hall. 1. To lay in a wrong Mislay (mis-lā'), v. t. place; to lay wrongly. The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. Locke. 2. To lay in a place not recollected; as, I have mislaid my purse and cannot lay my hands on it. Mislayer (mis-lā'ėr), n. One that mislays or lays in a wrong place; one that loses. Bacon. Misle (miz'l), v.i. [Dim. and freq. from mist; properly mistle; mizzle is a slightly altered form.] To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle. Misle (miz'l), n. A fine close rain; a drizzle. Mislead (mis-lēd), v.t. pret. & pp. misled. To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. 'Lights that do mislead the morn.' Shak. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. MISLEADER A thousand external details must be left out as irrelevant, and only serving to distract and mislead the observer. Dr. Caird. -Mislead, Delude. Mislead means to lead wrong, but does not necessarily imply design. Delude implies intention to deceive, and that means are used for that purpose. We may be misled through ignorance; but we are deluded by false representations. Misleader (mis-lēd'èr), n. One who misleads or leads into error. Shak. Misleading (mis-lēd'ing), p. and a. Leading astray; leading into error. Mislear'd (mis-lērd'), a. [Lit. mis-taught.] Unmannerly; mischievous; ill-taught. [Scotch.] Mislearn (mis-lêrn'), v.t. To learn wrongly or amiss. Mislearned (mis-lérnd'), a. Not really, usefully, or properly learned. Such is this which you have here propounded on the behalf of your friend, whom it seems a mislearned advocate would fain bear up in a course altogether unjustifiable. Bp. Hall. Misled (mis-led'), pret. & pp. of mislead. Misletoe (miz'l-tō), n. See MISTLETOE. Herrick. Mislike (mis-lik), v.t. To dislike; to disapprove; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man or an opinion. Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnished sun. Shak. Lord Steyne also heartily misliked the boy. Thackeray. Mislike (mis-lik), v.i. To entertain dislike or disapprobation. Milton, Mislike (mis-līk'), n. Dislike; disapprobation; aversion. Shak. Misliker (mis-lik'ėr), n. One that dislikes. Mislin (miz'lin). Same as Meslin. Misling (miz'ling), n. [See MISLE, v.i.] A thick mist or fine rain. Bible, 1551. Mislippen (mis-lip'en), v. t. [Scotch.] 1. To disappoint.-2. To deceive; to delude. Marston. Misluck (mis-luk), n. Ill luck; misfortune. Wodroephe. Misly (miz'li), a. [See MISLE.] Raining in very small drops. Mismake (mis-māk), v.t. To make wrongly or amiss; as, to mismake a dress. Mismanage (mis-man'āj), v.t. To manage ill; to administer improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs. Locke. Mismanagement (mis-man'āj-ment), n. Ill or improper management; ill conduct; as, the mismanagement of public or private affairs. 'Old mismanagements, taxations new.' Pope. Mismanager (mis-man'āj-ér), n. One that manages ill. Mismark (mis-märk), v.t. To mark with the wrong mark; to mark erroneously. Mismatch (mis-mach'), v.t. To match unsuitably. Mismatchment (mis-mach'ment), n. A misalliance. Mrs. Gore. Mismate (mis-mät), v.t. To mate or match amiss or unsuitably. Not quite mismated with a yawning clown.' Tennyson. Mismeasure (mis-mezh'ür), v.t. To measure incorrectly; to form a wrong estimate or opinion. Which prefers that right and wrong should be mismeasured and confounded on one of the subjects most momentous to human welfare. F. S. Mill. Mismeasurement (mis-mezh'ür-ment), n. Wrong measurement. Mismetre, v.t. To spoil the metre of by writing or reading verses ill. Chaucer. Misname (mis-nām'), v.t. To call by the wrong name. Misnomer (mis-no'mèr), n. [Prefix mis, from O.Fr. mes, wrong (from L. minus, less), and nommer, to name. ] 1. In law, the mistaking of the true name of a person in some writ or document. An error in the Christian name of the defender, though otherwise correctly designated, is fatal to a summons. Misnomers in proceedings are now frequently amended by the court, provided the other parties have neither been 182 misled nor prejudiced by them.-2. A mistaken or inapplicable name or designation; a misapplied term. The word 'synonym' is in fact a misnomer. Whately. Is Pompey's Pillar really a misnomer! Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer? H. Smith. Misnomer (mis-no'měr), v.t. To designate by a mistaken or inapplicable name; to misname. Richardson. [Rare.] Misnumber (mis-num'bèr), v. t. To number or reckon amiss; to miscalculate. 'Which might well make it suspected that the armies by sea, before spoken of, were misnumbered.' Raleigh. To nurture Misnurture (mis-nėrtūr), v.t. or train wrongly. 'Parents misnurturing their children.' Bp. Hall. Misobedience t (mis-o-be'di-ens), n. Erroneous obedience, or disobedience. Milton. Misobserve (mis-ob-zèrv), v.t. To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. 'If I misobserve not.' Locke. Misobserver (mis-ob-zèrv'èr), n. One who observes inaccurately or imperfectly. Misogamist (mi-sogʻam-ist), n. [Gr. miseō, to hate, and gamos, marriage.] A hater of marriage. Misogamy (mi-sog'a-mi), n. [Gr. mised, to hate, and gamos, marriage.] Hatred of marriage. Lamb. Misogynist (mi-sog'i-nist), n. [Gr. miseō, to hate, and gyně, woman.] A woman-hater. The hardest task is to persuade the erroneous obstinate misogynist, or woman-hater, that any discourse acknowledging their worth can go beyond poetry. Whitlock. Misogyny (mi-sog'i-ni), n. [See above.] Hatred of the female sex. It is misogyny rather than misogamy he affects. Lamb. Misopiniont (mis-o-pin'i-on), n. Erroneous opinion. Bp. Hall. Misordert (mis-order), v.t. To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak. Misordert (mis-or'dėr), n. Irregularity; disorderly proceedings. Camden. Misorderly † (mis-order-li), a. Irregular; disorderly. Misordination (mis-or'din-ā"shon), n. Wrong ordination. Misotheism (mi-soth'e-izm), n. [Gr. misos, hatred, and theos, god.] Hatred of God. De Quincey. [Rare.] Mispassion (mis-pa'shon), n. Ill or wicked passion or strong affection. But I say unto you that not only the outward act of murder is a breach of the law, but the inward mispassion of the heart also. Bp. Hall. Mispayt (mis-pā'), v.t. To discontent; to dissatisfy; to displease. Gower. Mispenset (mis-pens'), n. Same as Misspense. Misperception (mis-pèr-sep'shon), n. Wrong perception. Mispersuade (mis-per-swād'), v.t. pret. & pp. mispersuaded; ppr. mispersuading. To persuade amiss, or to lead to a wrong notion. Mispersuasibleness (mis-per-swa'zi-blnes), n. The quality of not being persuadable. Abp. Leighton. Mispersuasion (mis-pèr-swa'zhon), n. A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion. Mispikel, Mispickel (mis'pik-el), n. [G.] Arsenical pyrites; an ore of arsenic, containing this metal in combination with iron, sometimes found in cubic crystals, but more often without any regular form. Misplace (mis-plas'), v.t. pret. & pp. misplaced; ppr. misplacing. To put in a wrong place; to set on an improper object; as, the book is misplaced; he misplaced his confidence. I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders Before I'll see the crown so foul misplaced. Shak. Misplacement (mis-plas'ment), n. The act of misplacing or putting in the wrong place. Misplead (mis-pled'), v.i. To err in pleading. Mispleading (mis-plēd′ing), n. In law, an error in pleading. Mispoint (mis-point'), v.t. To point improperly; to err in punctuation. Mispolicy (mis-poli-si), n. Wrong policy; impolicy. Quart. Rev. Mispractice (mis-prak'tis), n. Wrong practice; misdeed. Misprint (mis-print'), v. t. To mistake in printing; to print wrong. Misprint (mis-print'), n. A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy. MISREGARD Mispriset (mis-prīz′), v.t. [O.Fr. mesprise, a mistake, mesprendre, to mistake, Fr. méprendre, méprise-mes (from L. minus, less), wrong, and prendre, to take.] To misconceive; to mistake. You spend your passion on a misprised mood; I am not guilty of Lysander's blood. Shak. Misprision (mis - prizh'on), n. [From the above verb.] 1. The taking of one thing for another; mistake; misconception; misunderstanding. Many, mistaking gradual for specifical differences amongst orders, have almost doubled their true number on that misprision. Fuller. 2. In law, any high offence under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon. Misprision is contained in every treason and felony. Misprisions are divided into negative and positive; negative, which consist in the concealment of something which ought to be revealed; and positive, which consist in the commission of something which ought not to be done.-Misprision of felony, the mere concealment of felony.-Misprision of treason consists in a bare knowledge and concealment of treason, without assenting to it. Maladministration in offices of high public trust is a positive misprision. Misprisiont (mis-prizh'on), n. [From the verb below. ] Undervaluing; contempt. [Rare.] Proud, scornful boy, unworthy this good gift; That dost in vile misprision shackle up My love and her desert. Shak. Misprize, Misprise (mis-prīz'), v.t. [Mis and prize; O.Fr. mespriser (Mod. Fr. mépriser), to despise, to undervalue, prefix mes, mis L. minus, less, and priser L. pretiare, to prize.] To slight or undervalue. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, Misprising what they look on. Shak. O for those vanished hours so much misprized. Hillhouse. Misproceeding (mis-prō-sēd'ing), n. Wrong or irregular proceeding. Misprofess (mis-pro-fes'), v.t. To make a false profession of; to make unfounded pretensions to. Keep me back, O Lord, from them who misprofess Donne. arts of healing the soul or the body. Misprofess (mis-prō-fes'), v.i. To make a false profession. Mispronounce (mis-pro-nouns'), v.t. or i. To pronounce erroneously. Misqueme,t v.t. [Prefix mis, and A. Sax. Look how we can, or sad or merrily, Shak Misraiset (mis-rāz′), v.t. To raise or excite falsely or without due cause. Here we were out of danger of this misraised fury. Bp. Hall. Misrate (mis-rāt), v. t. To rate erroneously; to estimate falsely. Barrow. Misread (mis-red'), v. t. To read amiss; to mistake the sense of. Misreceive (mis-rē-sēv'), v.t. To receive amiss. Todd. Misrecital (mis-rē-sit’al), n. An inaccurate recital. Misrecite (mis-re-sit), v.t. To recite or repeat incorrectly. Boyle. Misreckon (mis-rek'n), v.t. To reckon or compute wrong. Sir W. Raleigh; South. Misreckoning (mis-rek'n-ing), n. An erroneous computation. Misrecollection (mis-rek'ol-lek"shon), n. Erroneous recollection. Misreform (mis-re-form'), v.t. To reform Here, well I weene, when as these rimes be red MISREGULATE Misregulate (mis-reg'u-lāt), v.t. To regulate amiss or imperfectly. Dickens. Misrehearse (mis-rē-hèrs'), v. t. To rehearse or quote inaccurately. He woulde make you ween here that I bothe misrehearse and misconstrue. Sir T. More. Misrelate (mis-rē-lāt^), v.t. To relate falsely or inaccurately. Boyle. Misrelation (mis-rē-lā'shon), n. Erroneous relation or narration. Misreligion (mis-rē-lij'on), n. False or erroneous religion. Branded with the infamy of a Paganish misreligion.' Bp. Hall. Misremember (mis-re-member), v.t. or i. To mistake in what one endeavours to remember; to err by failure of memory. Locke. If I much misremember not. Boyle. Misrender (mis-ren'dër), v.t. To render or construe inaccurately; to mistranslate. They (the Psalms) must at least be allowed to contain polished and fashionable expressions in their own language, how coarsely soever they have been misrendered in ours. Boyle. Misreport (mis-rē-pōrt), v. t. 1. To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. His doctrine was misreported. Hooker. 2. To speak ill of; to slander. I know him for a man divine and holy; And, on my trust, a man that never yet Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace. Shak. Misreport (mis-rē-pōrt'), n. An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given. Misrepresent (mis-rep'rē-zent"), v.t. To represent falsely or incorrectly; to give a false or erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignorantly, or carelessly; as, to misrepresent facts; to misrepresent a person's actions or words. Misrepresent (mis-rep're-zent"), v.i. To make a false or incorrect representation. 'Or do my eyes misrepresent.'" Milton. Misrepresentation (mis-rep'rē - zent -ā”shon), n. 1. The act of misrepresenting or giving a false or erroneous representation. The Scriptures frequently forbid rash judgments, and censoriousness, and a misrepresentation of other men's actions. Fortin. 2. A false or incorrect representation or account, either from mistake, carelessness, or malice; as, the whole pamphlet consisted of misrepresentations. Misrepresentative (mis-rep'rē-zent-a-tiv), a. Tending to misrepresent or convey a false representation or impression; misrepresenting. Misrepresenter (mis-rep're-zent-ér), n. One who misrepresents. Misrepute (mis-rē-pūt'), v.t. To repute or estimate wrongly; to hold in wrong estimation. Milton. Misrule (mis-röl'), n. Bad rule; disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination. 'Enormous riot and misrule.' Pope.-Lord of misrule. See LORD. Misrule (mis-röl'), v. t. pret. & pp. misruled; ppr. misruling. To rule amiss; to govern badly or oppressively. Nor has any ruler a right to require that his subjects should be contented with his misgovernment by showing them a neighbouring prince who oppresses and misrules far more. Brougham. Misruly+ (mis-röl'i), a. Unruly; ungovernable; turbulent. His misruly tongue.' Bp. Hall. Miss (mis), n. [Contr. from mistress.] 1. An unmarried female; a young unmarried woman; a girl 'Little masters and misses in a house.' Swift. Mis The withered misses! how they prose O'er books of travelled seamen. Tennyson. 2. A title of address prefixed to the name of an unmarried female. 'Miss, at the beginning of the last century, was appropriated to girls under the age of ten. tress was then the style of grown-up unmarried ladies, though the mother was living, and, for a considerable part of the century, maintained its ground against the infantine term of miss.' Todd. [With respect to the use of this title when two or more persons of the same name are spoken of or addressed, there is a good deal of diversity. Some give the plural to the name, as the Miss Smiths; others to the title, as the Misses Smith.]3. A kept mistress; a concubine. 'She being taken to be the Earl of Oxford's miss. Evelyn.-4. In card-playing, in the game of three-card loo an extra hand dealt aside on the table, for which a player is at liberty to exchange his own hand. Miss (mis), v.t. [A. Sax. missian, to miss, mistake, err; cog. D. and G. missen, Icel. 183 missa, Dan. miste, to miss, to do without, to fail, &c.; closely connected with the Teut. prefix mis.] 1. To fail in hitting, reaching, obtaining, finding, seeing, and the like; as, to miss the mark; to miss the object intended. 'If you miss an office for which you stood candidate.' Jer. Taylor. So may I, blind Fortune leading me, If she desired above all things to have Argalus, Milton. Prior. 4. To omit; to pass by; to go without; to fail to have; as, to miss a meal of victuals. She would never miss one day A walk so fine, a sight so gay. -To be missing, not to be found; to have disappeared. To miss stays (naut.). See STAY. -To miss one's tip, to fail in one's scheme or purpose; to fail in effecting or reaching a proposed object. [Slang.] One has had it very sharp, act'ly runs right at the leaders, only luck'ly for him he misses his tip, and comes over a heap of stones first. T. Hughes. Miss (mis), v.i. 1. To fail to hit, reach, obtain, and the like; to fail; to miscarry. Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away. Waller. Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss. Bacon. The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventor missed. Milton. Formerly sometimes with of. On the least reflection, we cannot miss of them. Atterbury. Judas, dost thou betray me with a kisse? Canst thou finde helle about my lips? and misse Of life, just at the gates of life and blisse. G. Herbert. 2. To go astray; to go wrong; to err; to fall; to slip. Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked spirits did fall from happy bliss; What wonder, then, if one of women all did miss! Spenser. Miss (mis), n. 1. A failure to hit, reach, obtain, and the like.-2. Felt loss; loss; want. There will be no great miss of those which are lost. Missend (mis-send'), v.t. To send amiss or incorrectly; as, to missend a letter. Misserve (mis-sérv), v. t. To serve unfaithfully. Bacon. Misset (mis-set'), v.t. To place or set wrongly, unfitly, unsuitably, or in a wrong position. Bacon. Misshape (mis-shap), v.t. To shape ill; to give an ill form to; to deform. And hor-. ribly misshapes with ugly sights.' Spenser. 'A misshaped figure.' Pope. Misshape (mis-shāp'), n. A bad or incor rect form. Misshapen (mis-shap'n), p. and a. formed; deformed; ugly. Misshapen mountains.' Bentley. Misshapenly (mis-shāp'n-li), adv. In a misshapen way. The Misshapenness (mis-shap'n-nes), n. state of being misshapen or badly shaped. Missheathe (mis-sheTH'), v.t. pret. & pp. missheathed; ppr. missheathing. To sheathe amiss or in a wrong place. This dagger hath mista'en, And is missheathed in my daughter's bosom. Shak. Missi (mis'së), n. [Ar., Hind.] A kind of dentrifice used in the East Indies to dye the teeth black. It is a mixture of gall-nuts, sulphate of copper, steel filings, &c. Missificate (mis-sif'i-kāt), v.i. [L.L. missa, mass, and L. facio, to make.] To perform mass. Milton. [Rare.] Missile (mis'il), a. [L. missilis, from mitto, missum, to send, to throw.] Capable of being thrown; fitted for being hurled or to be projected from the hand or from any instrument or engine. We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart. Pope. The arrow is a light missile weapon. Bp. Horsley. Missile (mis'il), n. A weapon or projectile thrown or intended to be thrown with a hostile intention, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet. Missing (mis'ing), p. and a. Lost; absent from the place where it was expected to be found; wanting. 'As once Moses was on the mount, and missing long.' Milton. Torn leaves and the shoots that are shortened by the pruner, do not reproduce their missing parts. H. Spencer. Missingly (mis'ing-li), adv. With omission; not constantly or continuously. Shak. Mission (mi'shon), n. [L. missio, a sending, from mitto, to send.] 1. A sending; the act of sending; the state of being sent or delegated by authority.-2. That with which a messenger or agent is charged; duty on which one is sent; a commission; an errand; as, to perform one's mission. A soul on highest mission sent.' Tennyson. Locke. How to begin, how to accomplish best His end of being on earth, and mission high. Milton. 3. Persons sent or appointed by authority to perform any service; particularly, the persons sent on some political business or to propagate religion.-4. A station or residence of missionaries; the persons connected with such a station.-5.† Dismission; discharge from service. Shak. 3. Mistake; error. Without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar." Ascham. [Rare.]-4.† Harm from mistake. And though one fall through heedless haste, Spenser. -A miss is as good as a mile, a phrase signifying that if one is missed, as by a bullet from a firearm, it does not matter by what distance he is missed. Missal (mis'al), n. [L.L. missale, liber missalis, from missa, the mass; Fr. missel, Pr. missal, Sp. misal, It. messale. See MASS.] The Roman Catholic mass-book. Missal (mis'al), a. Pertaining to the missal or Roman Catholic mass-book. "The missal sacrifice.' Bp. Hall. Missay (mis-sa'), v. t. 1. To say or utter wrongly or amiss. Donne.-2.† To speak ill of; to slander. Chaucer. Missayt (mis-sā), v. i. To speak ill or mistakenly. Hakewill. Missayer (mis-sā′ēr), n. One who missays; an evil-speaker. Chaucer. Misseek† (mis-sek'), v.t. To seek or search for in a wrong way or wrong direction. In Cæsar's army, somewhat the soldiers would have had, yet only demanded a mission or discharge. Bacon. SYN. Message, errand, commission, delegation, deputation. Mission (mi'shon), v.t. To send on a mission; to commission. For this was Risid missioned to the ships. Southey. Missionariness (mi'shon-a-ri-nes), n. The state, quality, or character of a missionary; the character or aptitude which qualifies one for discharging a mission. I read a score of books on womanhood, books demonstrating Their rapid insight and fine aptitude, Particular worth and general missionariness, And never say 'no' when the world says 'yes.' E. B. Browning. Missionary (mi'shon-a-ri), n. [Fr. missionnaire. See MISSION.] One who is sent upon a religious mission; one who is sent to propagate religion. The Presbyterian missionary, who hath been persecuted for his religion.' Swift. Missionary (miʼshon-a-ri), a. Pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund; a missionary society. MISSIONER Missioner + (mi’shon-ér), n. One sent on a mission; an envoy. Dryden. Like mighty missioner you come. Missis (mis'iz), n. A colloquial corruption or contraction of Mistress. So he altered these words, bowing to the superior knowledge of his little Missis. Thackeray. Missish (mis'ish), a. Like a miss; prim; affected; lackadaisical. Cornhill Mag. Missishness (mis'ish-nes), n. The act of affecting the airs of a young miss; primness; silly affectation. 'By charging me with deliberate coquetry and missishness in my conduct towards this man.' T. Hook. 'Missit (mis-sit), v. t. To sit ill or imperfectly on; to misbecome. Chaucer. Missive (mis'iv), a. [Fr.] 1. Sent or proceeding from some authoritative or official source. To elect the person he has nominated by his letter missive.' Ayliffe.-2. Intended to be thrown, hurled, or ejected; missile. The missive weapons fly.' Dryden. Part hidden veins digg'd up Whereof to found their engines and their balls Of missive ruin. Milton. Sent from an arm so strong the missive wood Sunk deep in earth. Pope. Missive (misʻiv), n. 1. That which is sent; announcement or information despatched by a messenger; a message; a letter sent; especially, in Scots law, a letter interchanged between parties, in which the one party offers to buy or sell or enter into any contract on certain conditions, and the other party accepts of the offer, completing the contract.-2. † A person sent; a messenger. Did gibe my missive out of audience.' Shak. Missound (mis-sound'), v.t. To sound amiss. Hall. Missoy-bark (mis' soi-bärk), n. An aromatic bark resembling cinnamon in flavour, found in New Guinea and the Papuan Isles, the powder of which is much used by the Japanese. Called also Massoy-bark. Misspeak (mis-spēk'), v.i. To err or mistake in speaking. Shak. Donne. Thou hast misspoke, misheard. Misspeak (mis-spēk'), v. t. To utter wrongly. Then as a mother which delights to hear Her early child misspeak half-uttered words. Misspeecht (mis-spēch'), n. A wrong speech. Gower. Misspell (mis-spel'), v.t. To spell wrong; to write or utter with wrong letters. Misspelling (mis-spel'ing), n. A wrong spelling; false orthography. Misspend (mis-spend), v.t. To spend amiss; to waste or consume to no purpose, or to a bad one; to waste; as, to misspend time or money; to misspend life. The genial moisture due To apples, otherwise misspends itself. Philips. Misspender (mis-spend'ér), n. One who misspends or consumes prodigally or improperly. Misspenset (mis-spens'), n. [From misspend.] Wrong or useless expenditure; waste; ill employment. A willful misspense of our time, labour, and good humour.' Barrow. Misspent (mis-spent'), p. and a. Ill-spent; expended or consumed to no purpose, or to a bad one; as, misspent time; a misspent life. Misstate (mis-stat), v. t. To state wrongly; to make an erroneous representation of; as, to misstate a question in debate. Misstatement (mis-stat'ment), n. A wrong statement; an erroneous representation, verbal or written; as, a misstatement of facts in testimony, or of accounts in a report. In justice both to Mr. Garrick and Dr. Johnson I think it necessary to rectify this misstatement. Boswek. Misstay (mis-stā), v. i. Naut. to miss stays; to fail of going about from one tack to another. Misstep (mis-step'), n. A wrong or false step. As he was descending a flight of stairs, he made a misstep, and fell headlong down five or six stairs. Prescott. Ill success; Missuccess (mis'suk-ses), n. failure. Bp. Hall. Missuggestion (mis-su-jest'yon), n. A wrong or evil suggestion. These cheaters, ... that would fain win you from us with mere tricks of missuggestion." Bp. Hall. Missummation (mis-sum-a'shon), n. A wrong summation. Misswear (mis-swar'), v. i. To swear falsely. Missy, Misy (mis'i), n. In mineral, a sulphur-yellow mineral occurring in small crystalline scales, and consisting of the im 184 pure sulphate of the peroxide of iron mixed with other sulphates. Missy (mis'i), a. Like a miss; like an affected young lady. A. K. H. Boyd. Mist (mist), n. [A.Sax. L.G. D. and Sw. mist, Icel. mistr, mist, darkness of the air.] 1. Visible watery vapour suspended in the atmosphere at or near the surface of the earth; the vapour of water falling in very numerous, but fine and separately almost imperceptible drops. The vapour of water when mixed with air of the same or a higher temperature is invisible; but when the temperature of the air is reduced below that of the vapour, the vapour becomes visible, and forms a mist. A cloud is nothing but a mist flying high in the air, as a mist is nothing but a cloud here below. Locke. 2. Something which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision. His passion cast a mist before his sense. Dryden. Mist (mist), v. t. To cover with mist; to cloud. Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. Shak. Mist (mist), v.i. To be misty or drizzling; as, it mists. Mista'en (mis-tan'), p. and a. A contraction for Mistaken. 'The dagger hath mista'en.' Shak. [Poetical or Scotch.] Mistakable (mis-tak'a-bl), a. Capable of being, or liable to be mistaken or misconceived. 'Less mistakable numbers.' Sir T. Browne. Mistake (mis-tāk), v. t. pret. mistook; pp. mistaken (formerly also mistook). 1. To take in error; to select wrongly; to mischoose. Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place where I erected it. Shak. 2. To conceive or understand erroneously; to misunderstand, misapprehend, or misconceive; to regard otherwise than as the facts warrant; to misjudge; as, to mistake one's meaning. 'Doth but mistake the truth.' Shak. Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much To think my poverty is treacherous. Shak. 3. To take for a certain other person or thing; to regard as one when really another; to confound. You have mistook Polixenes for Leontes. Shak. 'Tis to mistake them (virtue and vice) costs the time and pain. Pope. These did apprehend a great affinity between their invocation of saints and the heathen idolatry, or else there was no danger one should be mistaken for the other. Stillingfleet. 4. To take away wrongly or improperly; to purloin. B. Jonson.-To be mistaken, (a) to be misunderstood, misconceived, or misapprehended; as, men or their opinions are mistaken by other men. (b) To make a mistake; to be in error; to be wrong; to misapprehend: in this sense the phrase rather belongs to MISTAKE, v.i. In Ireland, unless I am mistaken, the king's name is used in ecclesiastical proceedings. Hallam. Mistake (mis-tak), v.i. 1. To err in opinion or judgment; to be under a misapprehension or misconception; to be in error. If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth. Shak. Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends. Swift. Chaucer. 2. To take a wrong part; to transgress. Ladies, I praye ensample taketh, Ye that ayenst your love mistaketh. Mistake (mis-tāk'), n. 1. An error in opinion or judgment; misconception; misapprehension; misunderstanding. Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake. Tillotson. 2. A slip; a fault; an error; a blunder; a wrong act done unintentionally; as, there is a mistake in the account or in the date.-No mistake, unquestionably; assuredly; certainly; without fail. 'For it was a cold night and no mistake.' Dickens. [Colloq.] I mean to go along all square and no mistake. Trollope. SYN. Misconception, misapprehension, blunder, slip, fault, miss, oversight. Mistaken (mis-täk'n), p. and a. 1. Erroneous; incorrect; as a mistaken notion. 2. Having made, or labouring under, a mistake; wrong; as, you were never more mistaken in your life. Mistakenly (mis-tāk'n-li), adv. By mistake. "The great virtues, as they are mistakenly called.' Goldsmith. Mistaker (mis-tāk'ér), n. One who mistakes or misunderstands. MISTLETOE Mistaking (mis-tāk'ing), n. mistake. I have done thee worthy service, An error; a Told thee no lies, made no mistakings. Shak. Mistakingly (mis-tak'ing-li), adv. Erroneously; falsely. Boyle. Misteach (mis-tech'), v. t. To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously. Mistell (mis-tel'), v.t. To tell erroneously. Mistemper (mis-tem'pêr), v. t. To temper ill; to disorder. This inundation of misternpered humour.' Shak. Mister (mis'tër), n. [The colloquial pronunciation of master, from its greater ease. See MASTER.] Sir; master: the common title of address to an adult male, now always written in the abbreviated form Mr. Mistert (mis'tér), n. [O. Fr. mestier, a trade or occupation, also need, necessity; Fr. métier, a trade, a calling; from L. ministerium, service, from minister, a servant. See MINISTER.] 1. A trade, art, or occupation. Chaucer. 2. Manner; kind; sort. What mister wight she was, and whence i-brought.' Fairfax.-3. Need; necessity; anything necessary. Mistert (mis'tër), v.t. Mister (mis'tèr), v.i. occasion for. To occasion loss to. To need; to be an As for my name it mistereth not to tell. Spenser. Misterm (mis-term), v.t. To term or denominate erroneously. Shak. Mistery (mis'tèr-i), n. [See MISTER, a trade.] The popular name of a composite plant of the genus Conoclinium (C. cœlestinum), having heartshaped leaves and corymbs of blue flowers, found in the Western and Southern States of America. Mistful (mist'ful), a. Clouded or darkened with or as with mist. 'Mistful eyes.' Shak. Misthink (mis-thingk),v.i. To think wrong. Milton. [Rare.] Misthink (mis-thingk'), v.t. To think ill of; to have an erroneous opinion of. How will the country, for these woful chances, Misthink the king, and not be satisfied! Shak. Misthought (mis-that'), n. Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error. "Through error and misthought.' Spenser. Misthrive (mis-thriv'),v.i. To thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous. Worcester. Misthrow (mis-thrō'), v. t. To throw wrongly. Gower. Mistico (mis'ti-ko), n. [From It. misto, mixed, the vessel being a kind of hermaphrodite.] A small kind of Mediterranean vessel between a xebec and a felucca. Admiral Smyth. Mistidet (mis-tid), v.i. [A.Sax. mistidan.] 1. To betide amiss or ill; to happen unfortunately.-2. To suffer misfortune. Chaucer. Mistihead (mist'i-hed), n. The state of being misty; mistiness. Mistily (mist'i-li), adv. In a misty manner; darkly; obscurely. 'Philosophres speken so mistily. Chaucer. Mistime (mis-tim), v.t. To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time. "This mistimed vaunt.' Sir W. Scott. 'Golden words, but mistimed above twelve hundred years.' Mil man. Mistiness (mist'i-nes), n. A state of being misty; obscurity; as, mistiness of weather; mistiness of ideas. Mistion (mist'yon), n. [L. mixtio, a mixing, from mixtus. See MIX.] The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed. Sir T. Browne; Boyle. Mistitle (mis-ti'tl), v.t. To call by a wrong title or name. Mistle (miz'l), v.i. To fall in mist or very fine drops, as rain; to misle or mizzle. Mistletoe (mizl-to), n. [A. Sax. mistel-ta, for mistel-tan, like Icel. mistel-teinn, tân, teinn, meaning a twig or sprout. The name seems to mean twig of darkness or mist, and to have been given from the fact that the Scandinavian sun-god Balder was said to have been slain by a twig of this plant, his death symbolizing the victory of darkness over light in the northern winters.] The Viscum album of botanists, nat. order Loranthaceae, a European plant growing parasitically on various trees, celebrated on account of the religious purposes to which it was consecrated by the ancient Celtic nations of Europe, being held in great veneration by the Druids, particularly when it was found growing on the oak. It is a jointed dichotomous shrub, with sessile, oblong, entire leaves, and small yellowish |