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Mischievousness

MIS'CHIEVOUSNESS, noun Hurtfulness; noxiousness.

1. Disposition to do harm, or to vex or annoy; as the mischievousness of youth.

Mischief denotes injury, harm or damage of less malignity and magnitude than what are usually called crimes. We never give the name of mischief to theft, robbery or murder. And it so commonly implies intention in committing petty offenses, that it shocks us to hear the word applied to the calamities inflicted by Providence. We say, a tempest has done great damage, but not mischief. In like manner, the adjective mischievous is not applied to thieves, pirates and other felons, but to persons committing petty trespasses and offenses.

Mischna

MISCH'NA, noun A part of the Jewish Talmud. [See Mishna.]

Mischoose

MISCHOOSE, verb transitive mischooz'. To choose wrong; to make a wrong choice.

Mischosen

MISCHO'SEN, participle passive Chosen by mistake.

Miscible

MIS'CIBLE, adjective [Latin misceo, to mix.]

That may be mixed. Oil and water are not miscible

Miscitation

MISCITA'TION, noun A wrong citation; erroneous quotation.

Miscite

MISCI'TE, verb transitive To cite erroneously or falsely.

Misclaim

MISCLA'IM, noun A mistaken claim or demand.

Miscomputation

MISCOMPUTA'TION, noun Erroneous computation; false reckoning.

Miscompute

MISCOMPU'TE, verb transitive To compute or reckon erroneously.

Misconceit

MISCONCE'IT

MISCONCE'IVE, verb transitive or i. To receive a false notion or opinion of any thing; to misjudge; to have an erroneous understanding of any thing.

To yield to others just and reasonable causes of those things, which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived.

Misconceive

MISCONCE'IVE, v.t. or i. To receive a false notion or opinion of any thing; to misjudge; to have an erroneous understanding of any thing. To yield to others just and reasonable causes of those things, which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived.

Misconceived

MISCONCE'IVED, participle passive Wrongly understood; mistaken.

Misconceiving

MISCONCE'IVING, participle present tense Mistaking; misunderstanding.

Misconception

MISCONCEP'TION, noun Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong notion or understanding of a thing.

Great errors and dangers result from a misconception of the names of things.

Misconduct

MISCON'DUCT, noun Wrong conduct; ill behavior; ill management.

MISCONDUCT', verb transitive To conduct amiss; to mismanage.

MISCONDUCT', verb intransitive To behave amiss.

Misconducted

MISCONDUCT'ED, participle passive Ill managed; badly conducted.

Misconducting

MISCONDUCT'ING, participle present tense Mismanaging; misbehaving.

Misconjecture

MISCONJEC'TURE, noun A wrong conjecture or guess.

MISCONJEC'TURE, verb transitive or i. To guess wrong.

Misconstruction

MISCONSTRUC'TION, noun Wrong interpretation of words or things; a mistaking of the true meaning; as a misconstruction of words or actions.

Misconstrue

MISCON'STRUE, verb transitive To interpret erroneously either words or things. It is important not to misconstrue the Scriptures.

Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent.

A virtuous emperor was much affected to find his actions misconstrued.

Misconstrued

MISCON'STRUED, participle passive Erroneously interpreted.

Misconstruer

MISCON'STRUER, noun One who makes a wrong interpretation.

Misconstruing

MISCON'STRUING, participle present tense Interpreting wrongly.

Miscorrect

MISCORRECT', verb transitive To correct erroneously; to mistake in attempting to correct another.

He passed the first seven years of his life at Mantua, not seventeen, as Scaliger miscorrects his author.

Miscorrected

MISCORRECT'ED, participle passive Mistaken in the attempt to correct.

Miscounsel

MISCOUN'SEL, verb transitive To advise wrong.

Miscount

MISCOUNT', verb transitive To count erroneously; to mistake in counting.

MISCOUNT', verb intransitive To make a wrong reckoning.

MISCOUNT', noun An erroneous counting or numbering.

Miscreance

MIS'CREANCE

MIS'CREANCY, noun [See Miscreant.] Unbelief; false faith; adherence to a false religion.

Miscreancy

MIS'CREANCY, n. [See Miscreant.] Unbelief; false faith; adherence to a false religion.

Miscreant

MIS'CREANT, noun [Latin credens, credo.]

1. An infidel, or one who embraces a false faith.

2. A vile wretch; an unprincipled fellow.

Miscreate

MISCREA'TE

MISCREA'TED, adjective Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.

Miscreated

MISCREA'TED, a. Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.

Misdate

MISDA'TE, noun A wrong date.

MISDA'TE, verb intransitive To date erroneously.

Misdeed

MISDEE'D, noun An evil deed; a wicked action.

Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.

Misdeem

MISDEE'M, verb transitive To judge erroneously; to misjudge; to mistake in judging.

Misdemean

MISDEME'AN, verb transitive To behave ill.

Misdemeanor

MISDEME'ANOR, noun Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault; mismanagement.

1. In law, an offense of a less atrocious nature than a crime. Crimes and misdemeanors are mere synonymous terms; but in common usage, the word crime is made to denote offenses of a deeper and more atrocious dye, while small faults and omissions of less consequence are comprised under the gentler name of misdemeanors.

Misdesert

MISDESERT', noun Ill desert.

Misdevotion

MISDEVO'TION, noun False devotion; mistaken piety. [Little used.]

Misdiet

MISDI'ET, noun Improper diet or food. [Not used.]

Misdirect

MISDIRECT', verb transitive To give a wrong direction to; as to misdirect a passenger.

1. To direct to a wrong person or place; as, to misdirect a letter.

Misdirected

MISDIRECT'ED, participle passive Directed wrong, or to a wrong person or place.

Misdirecting

MISDIRECT'ING, participle present tense Directing wrong, or to a wrong person or place.

Misdisposition

MISDISPOSI'TION, noun Disposition to evil. [Not in use.]

Misdistinguish

MISDISTIN'GUISH, verb transitive To make wrong distinctions.

Misdo

MISDO, verb transitive [See Do.] To do wrong; to do amiss; to commit a crime or fault.

Misdoer

MISDOER, noun One who does wrong; one who commits a fault or crime.

Misdoing

MISDOING, participle present tense Doing wrong; committing a fault or crime.

MISDOING, noun A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense.

Misdoubt

MISDOUBT, verb transitive misdout'. [See Doubt.] To suspect of deceit or danger. [An ill formed word and not in use.]

MISDOUBT', noun Suspicion of crime or danger. [Not used.]

1. Irresolution; hesitation. [Not used.]

Misdoubtful

MISDOUBT'FUL, adjective Misgiving. [Not used.]

Mise

MISE, noun meze. [Latin mitto.]

1. In law, an issue to be tried at the grand assize.

2. Expense; cost.

3. A tax or tallage; in Wales, 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 earldoms.

Misemploy

MISEMPLOY', verb transitive To employ to no purpose, or to a bad purpose; as, to misemploy time, power, advantages, talents, etc.

Misemployed

MISEMPLOY'ED, participle passive Used to no purpose, or to a bad one.

Misemploying

MISEMPLOY'ING, participle present tense Using to no purpose, or to a bad one.

Misemployment

MISEMPLOY'MENT, noun Ill employment; application to no purpose, or to a bad purpose.

Misentry

MISEN'TRY, noun An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.

Miser

MI'SER, noun s as z. [Latin miser miserable.] A miserable person; one wretched or afflicted.

1. A wretch; a mean fellow.

2. An extremely covetous person; a sordid wretch; a niggard; one who in wealth makes himself miserable by the fear of poverty. [This is the only sense in which it is now used.]

No silver saints by dying misers given.

Miserabale

MIS'ERABALE, adjective s as z. [Latin miser, miserabilis.]

1. Very unhappy from grief, pain, calamity, poverty, apprehension of evil, or other cause. It however expresses somewhat less than wretched.

What hopes delude thee, miserable man?

2. Very poor; worthless.

Miserable comforters are ye all. Job 16:1.

3. Causing unhappiness or misery.

What's more miserable than discontent?

4. Very poor or mean; as a miserable hut; miserable clothing.

5. Very poor or barren; as a miserable soil.

6. Very low or despicable; as a miserable person.

Miserableness

MIS'ERABLENESS, noun State of misery; poorness.

Miserably

MIS'ERABLY, adverb Unhappily; calamitously.

The fifth was miserably stabbed to death.

1. Very poorly or meanly; wretchedly. They were miserably entertained.

2. In misery or unhappiness.

Miserly

MI'SERLY, adjective [See Miser.] Very covetous; sordid; niggardly; parsimonious.

Misery

MIS'ERY, noun s as z. [Latin miseria.]

1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind. A man suffers misery from the gout, or from great afflictions, distress, calamity, and other evils. misery expresses somewhat less than wretchedness.

Misery is as really the fruit of vice reigning in the heart, as tares are the produce of tares sown in the field.

2. Calamity; misfortune; natural evils which are the cause of misery

And mourn the miseries of human life.

3. Covetousness. [Not used.]

Misestimate

MISES'TIMATE, verb transitive To estimate erroneously.

Misfall

MISFALL', verb transitive To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily.

Misfare

MISFA'RE, noun Ill fare; misfortune.

Misfashion

MISFASH'ION, verb transitive To form wrong.

Misfeasance

MISFE'ASANCE, noun misfe'zance. In law, a trespass; a wrong done.

Misform

MISFORM', verb transitive To make of an ill form; to put in an ill shape.

Misfortune

MISFOR'TUNE, noun Ill fortune; ill luck; calamity; an evil or cross accident; as loss of property at sea or by fire.

Consider why the change was wrought,

You'll find it his misfortune not his fault.

Misfortuned

MISFOR'TUNED, adjective Unfortunate.

Misgive

MISGIVE, verb transitive misgiv'. [See Give.] To fill with doubt; to deprive of confidence; to fail; usually applied to the heart.

So doth my heart misgive me.

His heart misgave him.

1. To give or grant amiss. [Not in use.]

Misgiving

MISGIV'ING, participle present tense Filling with doubt or distrust; failing.

MISGIV'ING, noun A failing of confidence; doubt; distrust.

Doubts, suspicions and misgivings.

Misgotten

MISGOT'TEN, adjective Unjustly obtained.

Misgovern

MISGOV'ERN, verb transitive To govern ill; to administer unfaithfully.

Solyman charged him bitterly that he had misgoverned the state.

Misgovernance

MISGOV'ERNANCE, noun Ill government; disorder; irregularity.

Misgoverned

MISGOV'ERNED, participle passive Ill governed; badly administered.

1. Rude; unrestrained; as rude, misgoverned hands.

Misgovernment

MISGOV'ERNMENT, noun Ill administration of public affairs.

1. Ill management in private affairs.

2. Irregularity; disorder.

Misgraff

MISGR'AFF, verb transitive To graft amiss.

Misground

MISGROUND', verb transitive To found erroneously.

Misguidance

MISGUI'DANCE, noun Wrong direction; guidance into error.

Misguide

MISGUI'DE, verb transitive To lead or guide into error; to direct ill; as, to misguide the understanding or mind.

Misguided

MISGUI'DED, participle passive Let astray by evil counsel or wrong direction; as a misguided prince.

Misguiding

MISGUI'DING, participle present tense Giving wrong direction to; leading into error.

Misgum

MIS'GUM

MIS'GURN, noun An anguilliform fish about the size of a common eel.

Misgurn

MIS'GURN, n. An anguilliform fish about the size of a common eel.

Mishap

MISHAP', noun Ill chance; evil accident; ill luck; misfortune.

Secure from worldly chances and mishaps.

Mishappen

MISHAP'PEN, verb intransitive To happen ill.

Mishear

MISHE'AR, verb transitive To mistake in hearing.

Mishna

MISH'NA, noun A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture.

Mishnic

MISH'NIC, adjective Pertaining or relating to the Mishna.

Misimprove

MISIMPROVE, verb transitive misimproov'. To improve to a bad purpose; to abuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages.

Misimproved

MISIMPROVED, participle passive Used to a bad purpose.

Misimprovement

MISIMPROVEMENT, noun misimproov'ment. Ill use or employment; improvement to a bad purpose.

Misinfer

MISINFER', verb transitive To draw a wrong inference.

Misinform

MISINFORM', verb transitive To give erroneous information to; to communicate an incorrect statement of facts.

Misinformation

MISINFORMA'TION, noun Wrong informations; false account or intelligence received.

Misinformed

MISINFORM'ED, participle passive Wrongly informed.

Misinformer

MISINFORM'ER, noun One that gives wrong information.

Misinforming

MISINFORM'ING, participle present tense Communicating erroneous information to.

Misinstruct

MISINSTRUCT', verb transitive To instruct amiss.

Misinstruction

MISINSTRUC'TION, noun Wrong instruction.

Misintelligence

MISINTEL'LIGENCE, noun Wrong information; disagreement.

Misinterpret

MISINTER'PRET, verb transitive To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

Misinterpretation

MISINTERPRETA'TION, noun The act of interpreting erroneously.

Misinterpreted

MISINTER'PRETED, adjective Erroneously understood or explained.

Misinterpreter

MISINTER'PRETER, noun One who interprets erroneously.

Misinterpreting

MISINTER'PRETING, participle present tense Erroneously interpreting.

Misjoin

MISJOIN', verb transitive To join unfitly or improperly.

Misjoined

MISJOIN'ED, participle passive Improperly united.

Misjoining

MISJOIN'ING, participle present tense Joining unfitly or improperly.

Misjudge

MISJUDGE, verb transitive misjudg'. To mistake in judging of; to judge erroneously.

MISJUDGE, verb intransitive misjudg'. To err in judgment; to form false opinions or notions.

Misjudged

MISJUDG'ED, participle passive Judged erroneously.

Misjudging

MISJUDG'ING, participle present tense Judging erroneously of; forming a wrong opinion or inference.

Misjudgment

MISJUDG'MENT, noun A wrong or unjust determination.

Miskin

MIS'KIN, noun A little bagpipe.

Miskindle

MISKIN'DLE, verb transitive To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose.

Mislaid

MISLA'ID, participle passive Laid in a wrong place, or place not recollected; lost.

Mislay

MISLA'Y, verb transitive To lay in a wrong place.

The fault is generally mislaid upon nature.

1. To lay in a place not recollected; to lose.

If the butler be the tell-tale, mislay a spoon so as he may never find it.

Mislayer

MISLA'YER, noun One that lays in a wrong place; one that loses.

Mislaying

MISLA'YING, participle present tense Laying in a wrong place, or place not remembered; losing.

Misle

MISLE, verb intransitive mis'l. [from mist, and properly mistle.]

To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist.

Mislead

MISLE'AD, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive misled. [See Lead.]

To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you,

But of the two, less dangerous is th' offense,

To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.

Misleader

MISLE'ADER, noun One who leads into error.

Misleading

MISLE'ADING, participle present tense Leading into error; causing to err; deceiving.

Misled

MISLED', participle passive of mislead. Let into error; led a wrong way.

--To give due light

To the misled and lonely traveller.

Misletoe

MISLETOE, noun mis'lto. A plant or shrub that grows on trees. It is of the genus Viscum. The berry contains a glutinous substance, and the shrub is said to be propagated by birds. This plant was held in great veneration by the Druids.

Mislike

MISLI'KE, verb transitive To dislike; to disapprove; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man or an opinion.

[For this word, dislike is generally used.]

MISLI'KE, noun Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.

Misliked

MISLI'KED, participle passive Disliked; disapproved.

Misliker

MISLI'KER, noun One that dislikes.

Misliking

MISLI'KING, participle present tense Disliking; disapproving.

Mislin

MISLIN, [See Meslin.]

Mislive

MISLIVE, verb intransitive . misliv'. To live amiss. [Not used.]

Misluck

MISLUCK', noun Ill luck; misfortune.

Misly

MIS'LY, adjective [See Misle and Mist.] Raining in very small drops.

Mismanage

MISMAN'AGE, verb transitive To manage ill; to administer improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.

MISMAN'AGE, verb intransitive To behave ill; to conduct amiss.

Mismanaged

MISMAN'AGED, participle passive Ill managed or conducted.

Mismanager

MISMAN'AGER, noun One that manages ill.

Mismanaging

MISMAN'AGING, participle present tense Managing ill.

Mismanagment

MISMAN'AGMENT, noun Ill or improper management; ill conduct; as the mismanagement of public or private affairs.

Mismark

MISM'ARK, verb transitive To mark with the wrong token; to mark erroneously.

Mismarked

MISM'ARKED, participle passive Wrongly marked.

Mismarking

MISM'ARKING, participle present tense Marking erroneously.

Mismatch

MISMATCH', verb transitive To match unsuitably.

Mismatched

MISMATCH'ED, participle passive Unsuitably matched; ill joined.

Mismatching

MISMATCH'ING, participle present tense Matching in an unsuitable manner.

Misname

MISNA'ME, verb transitive To call by the wrong name.

Misnamed

MISNA'MED, participle passive Called by a wrong name.

Misnaming

MISNA'MING, participle present tense Calling by a wrong name.

Misnomer

MISNO'MER, noun In law, the mistaking of the true name of a person; a misnaming. [Misnosmer, as written by Blackstone, must be a corrupt orthography. In no dialect has name, Latin nomen, been written with s, unless by mistake.

Misobedience

MISOBE'DIENCE, noun Erroneous obedience or disobedience. [Not used.]

Misobserve

MISOBSERVE, verb transitive misobzerv'. To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.

Misogamist

MISOG'AMIST, noun [Gr. to hate, and marriage.] A hater of marriage.

Misogynist

MISOG'YNIST, noun [Gr. to hate, and woman.] A woman hater. [Unusual.]

Misogyny

MISOG'YNY, noun [supra.] Hatred of the female sex.

Misopinion

MISOPIN'ION, noun Erroneous opinion.

Misorder

MISOR'DER, verb transitive To order ill; to manage erroneously.

1. To manage ill; to conduct badly.

MISOR'DER, noun Irregularity; disorderly proceedings. [We now use disorder.]

Misorderly

MISOR'DERLY, adjective Irregular; disorderly.

Mispell

MISPELL, MISPEND, etc. [See Miss-spell, Miss-spend.]

Mispend

MISPELL, MISPEND etc. [See Miss-spell, Miss-spend.]

Mispersuade

MISPERSUA'DE, verb transitive To persuade amiss, or to lead to a wrong notion.

Mispersuasion

MISPERSUA'SION, noun A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion.

Mispikel

MISPIK'EL, noun Arsenical pyrite; an ore of arsenic, containing this metal in combination with iron, sometimes found in cubic crystals, but more often without any regular form.

Misplace

MISPLA'CE, verb transitive To put in a wrong place; as, the book is misplaced.

1. To place on an improper object; as, he misplaced his confidence.

Misplaced

MISPLA'CED, participle passive Put in a wrong place, or on an improper object.

Misplacing

MISPLA'CING, participle present tense Putting in a wrong place, or on a wrong object.

Misplead

MISPLE'AD, verb intransitive To err in pleading.

Mispleading

MISPLE'ADING, participle present tense Making a mistake in pleading.

MISPLE'ADING, noun A mistake in pleading.

Mispoint

MISPOINT', verb transitive To point improperly; to err in punctuation.

Misprint

MISPRINT', verb transitive To mistake in printing; to print wrong.

MISPRINT', noun A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy.

Misprinted

MISPRINT'ED, participle passive Erroneously printed.

Misprinting

MISPRINT'ING, participle present tense Printing wrong.

Misprise

MISPRI'SE

MISPRISION, noun misprizh'un. [supra.] Neglect; contempt.

1. In law, any high offense 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 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.

1. Mistake; oversight; contempt. [Not in use.]

Misprision

MISPRISION, n. misprizh'un. [supra.] Neglect; contempt. 1. In law, any high offense 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 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.1. Mistake; oversight; contempt. [Not in use.]

Misprize

MISPRI'ZE, verb transitive

1. To mistake.

2. To slight or undervalue.

O for those vanish'd hours, so much mispris'd.

Misproceeding

MISPROCEE'DING, noun Wrong or irregular proceeding.

Misprofess

MISPROFESS', verb transitive To make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.

Mispronounce

MISPRONOUNCE, verb transitive mispronouns'. To pronounce erroneously; as, to mispronounce a word, a name, etc.

MISPRONOUNCE, verb intransitive mispronouns'. To speak incorrectly.

Mispronunciation

MISPRONUNCIA'TION, noun A wrong or improper pronunciation.

Misproportion

MISPROPO'RTION, verb transitive To err in proportioning one thing to another; to join without due proportion.

Misproud

MISPROUD', v. Vitiously proud. [Not used.]

Misquotation

MISQUOTA'TION, noun An erroneous quotation; the act of quoting wrong.

Misquote

MISQUO'TE, verb transitive To quote erroneously; to cite incorrectly.

Misquoted

MISQUO'TED, participle passive Incorrectly quoted or cited.

Misquoting

MISQUO'TING, participle present tense Quoting or citing erroneously.

Misrate

MISRA'TE, verb transitive To rate erroneously; to estimate falsely.

Misrecital

MISRECI'TAL, noun An inaccurate recital.

Misrecite

MISRECI'TE, verb transitive To recite erroneously.

Misrecited

MISRECI'TED, participle passive Recited incorrectly.

Misreciting

MISRECI'TING, participle present tense Reciting erroneously.

Misreckon

MISRECK'ON, verb transitive To reckon or compute wrong.

Misreckoned

MISRECK'ONED, participle passive Reckoned or computed erroneously.

Misreckoning

MISRECK'ONING, participle present tense Reckoning wrong; and as a noun, an erroneous computation.

Misrelate

MISRELA'TE, verb transitive To relate falsely or inaccurately.

Misrelated

MISRELA'TED, participle passive Erroneously related or told.

Misrelating

MISRELA'TING, participle present tense Relating or telling erroneously.

Misrelation

MISRELA'TION, noun Erroneous relation or narration.

Misremember

MISREMEM'BER, verb transitive To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.

Misremembered

MISREMEM'BERED, participle passive Inaccurately recollected.

Misremembering

MISREMEM'BERING, participle present tense Remembering inaccurately.

Misreport

MISREPORT, verb transitive To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.

MISREPORT, noun An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given.

Misreported

MISREPORTED, participle passive Incorrectly reported.

Misreporting

MISREPORTING, participle present tense Reporting incorrectly.

Misrepresent

MISREPRESENT', verb transitive To represent falsely or incorrectly; to give a false or erroneous representation, either maliciously, ignorantly or carelessly.

Misrepresentation

MISREPRESENTA'TION, noun The act of giving a false or erroneous representation.

1. A false or incorrect account given, either from mistake, carelessness or malice.

Misrepresented

MISREPRESENT'ED, participle passive Falsely or erroneously represented.

Misrepresenter

MISREPRESENT'ER, noun One who gives a false or erroneous account.

Misrepresenting

MISREPRESENT'ING, participle present tense Giving a false or erroneous representation.

[Note. This word is so customarily used for an euphemism, or as a softer expression for lie or falsehood, as to convey the idea generally of intentional falsehood. This signification however is not necessarily implied.]

Misrepute

MISREPU'TE, verb transitive To have in wrong estimation.

Misreputed

MISREPU'TED, participle passive or adjective Erroneously reputed.

Misrule

MISRU'LE, noun Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.

Enormous riot and misrule--

1. Unjust domination.

Misruly

MISRU'LY, adjective Unruly; ungovernable; turbulent.

Miss

MISS, noun

1. The title of a young woman or girl; as little masters and misses.

2. A kept mistress; a prostitute retained; a concubine.

MISS, verb transitive [Latin mitto, misi; omitto, omisi.]

1. To fail in aim; to fail of reaching the object; not to hit; as, to miss the mark; to miss the object intended.

2. To fail of finding the right way; to err in attempting to find; as, to miss the way or the road.

3. To fail of obtaining.

Orgalus feared nothing but to miss Parthenia.

4. To learn or discover that something is wanting, or not where it was supposed to be; as, to miss one's snuff-box; I missed the first volume of Livy.

Neither missed we any thing--. Nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. 1 Samuel 25:15.

5. To be without; as, we cannot miss him.

6. 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.

7. To perceive the want of.

What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss

He who has a firm sincere friend, may want all the rest without missing them.

8. To fail of seeing or finding.

MISS, verb intransitive To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.

Flying bullets now,

To execute his rage, appear too slow;

They miss or sweep but common souls away.

1. Not to succeed; to fail.

Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss--

2. To fail; to miscarry, as by accident.

The invention all admired, and each, how he

To be the inventor missed.

3. To fail to obtain, learn or find; with of.

On the least reflection, we can miss of them.

4. To fail; to mistake.

MISS, noun Loss; want.

There will be no great miss of those which are lost.

1. Mistake; error.

He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. [Little used.]

2. Harm from mistake.

Missal

MIS'SAL, noun The Romish mass-book.

Missay

MISSA'Y, verb transitive To say wrong; to slander. [Little used.]

MISSA'Y, verb intransitive To speak ill.

Missaying

MISSA'YING, noun Wrong expression.

Misseem

MISSEE'M, verb intransitive To make a false appearance.

1. To misbecome.

Missel

MIS'SEL

MIS'SEL-BIRD, noun A species of thrush.

Misseldine

MIS'SELDINE, noun The mistletoe. [Not used.]

Missemblance

MISSEM'BLANCE, noun False resemblance.

Misserve

MISSERVE, verb transitive misserv'. To serve unfaithfully.

Misshape

MISSHA'PE, verb transitive [See Shape.] To shape ill; to give an ill form to; to deform.

And horribly misshapes with ugly sights.

A misshaped figure.

Misshapen mountains.

Misshaped

MISSHA'PED

MISSHA'PEN, participle passive Ill formed; deformed; ugly.

Missile

MIS'SILE, adjective [Latin missilis, from missus, sent; mitto, to send.]

Thrown or sent, or that may be thrown. A missile weapon is one that is thrown by the hand, or from an engine in war, in distinction from such as are held or retained in the hand, or fixed. An arrow, a dart, a javelin, a stone, a bullet, a bomb, are missile weapons.

Missing

MISS'ING, participle present tense [from miss.] Failing to hit, to reach or to find; discovering to be wanting.

1. adjective Lost; absent from the place where it was expected to be found; wanting. My horse is missing; my pen or my book is missing

For a time caught up to God, as once

Moses was in the mount, and missing long.

Mission

MIS'SION, noun [Latin missio, from mitto, to send.]

1. A sending or being sent, usually the latter; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; commission; as sent on a foreign mission

How to begin, how to accomplish best

His end of being on earth, and mission high.

2. Persons sent; any number of persons appointed by authority to perform any service; particularly, the persons sent to propagate religion, or evangelize the heathen. The societies for propagating the gospel have missions in almost every country. Last week a mission sailed for the Sandwich isles. We have domestic missions and foreign missions.

3. Dismission; discharge from service; a Roman use of the word; in English, obsolete.

4. Faction; party. [Not in use.]

Missionary

MIS'SIONARY, noun One sent to propagate religion. Christian missionaries are called missionaries of the cross.

MIS'SIONARY, adjective Pertaining to mission; as a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

Missioner

MISSIONER, for missionary, is not used.

Missive

MIS'SIVE, adjective Such as is sent; as a letter missive

1. Thrown or sent, or such as may be sent; as a missive weapon.

MIS'SIVE, noun A letter sent, or messenger.

Misspeak

MISSPE'AK, verb intransitive [See Speak.] To err or mistake in speaking.

MISSPE'AK, verb transitive To utter wrong.

Misspelled

MISSPELL'ED

MISSPELL'ING, participle present tense Spelling wrong.

MISSPELL'ING, noun A wrong spelling; false orthography.

Misspelt

MISSPELT', participle passive Spelled wrong, or with wrong letters.

Misspend

MISSPEND', verb transitive To spend amiss; to waste or consume to no purpose, or to a bad one; as, to misspend time or money; to misspend life.

1. To waste.

The genial moisture due

To apples, otherwise misspends itself.

Misspender

MISSPEND'ER, noun One that consumes prodigally or improperly.

Misspending

MISSPEND'ING, participle passive Spending to no purpose, or to a bad one.

Misspense

MISSPENSE, noun misspens'. A spending improperly; a wasting.

Misspent

MISSPENT', participle present tense Ill spent; expended or consumed to no purpose, or to a bad one; as misspent time or life.

Misspoke

MISSPO'KE

MISSPO'KEN, participle passive Uttered or spoken amiss.

Missy

MIS'SY, noun The sulphate of iron, having lost the water of its crystallization, is called sori; more thoroughly calcined, it is yellow, and called missy

Mistaken

MISTA'KEN. In the use of this participle, there is a peculiarity which ought to be carefully noticed. When used of persons, it signified to be in an error, to be wrong; as, I am mistaken you are mistaken he is mistaken But when used of things, it signified misunderstood, misconceived; as, the sense of the passage is mistaken that is, not rightly understood.

Mistaker

MISTA'KER, noun One that mistakes or misunderstands.

Mistaking

MISTA'KING, participle present tense Making a mistake; erring from the truth; misconceiving.

MISTA'KING, noun An error; a mistake.

Mistakingly

MISTA'KINGLY, adverb Erroneously; falsely.

Mistaught

MISTAUGHT', participle passive Wrongly taught; as a mistaught youth.

Misteach

MISTE'ACH, verb transitive [See Teach.] To teach wrong; to instruct erroneously.

Misteaching

MISTE'ACHING, participle present tense Instructing erroneously.

Mistell

MISTELL', verb transitive [See Tell.] To tell erroneously.

Mistemper

MISTEM'PER, verb transitive To temper ill; to disorder.

Mistempered

MISTEM'PERED, participle passive Tempered ill.

Mister

MIS'TER, noun The common title of address to gentlemen, and to men of all classes. In writing, it is expressed by the abbreviation Mr.

MIS'TER, verb transitive To occasion loss. [Not in use.]

Misterm

MISTERM', verb transitive To term or denominate erroneously.

Mistermed

MISTERM'ED, participle passive Wrongly denominated.

Misterming

MISTERM'ING, participle present tense Denominating erroneously.

Misthink

MISTHINK', verb intransitive [See Think.] To think wrong. [Little used.]

Misthought

MISTHOUGHT', participle passive of misthink. Thought wrong of.

Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear.

Mistime

MISTI'ME, verb transitive To time wrong; not to adapt to the time.

MISTI'ME, verb intransitive To neglect the proper time.

Mistimed

MISTI'MED, participle passive Ill timed; done at a wrong time.

Mistiming

MISTI'MING, participle present tense Ill timing; doing unseasonably.

Mistion

MIS'TION, noun [Latin mistus, mixtus. See Mix.]

1. A state of being mixed.

2. Mixture; a mingling.

Mistitle

MISTI'TLE, verb transitive To call by a wrong title or name.

Mistitled

MISTI'TLED, participle passive Wrongly named.

Mistle

MISTLE, verb intransitive mis'l. [from mist.]

To fall in very fine drops, as rain. [See Missle.]

Mistletoe

MISTLETOE

MIST'LIKE, adjective Resembling mist.

Mistold

MISTOLD, participle passive Erroneously told. [See Tell.]

Mistook

MISTOOK', preterit tense of mistake.

Mistrain

MISTRA'IN, verb transitive To train or educate amiss.

Mistranslate

MISTRANSLA'TE, verb transitive To translate erroneously.

Mistranslated

MISTRANSLA'TED, participle passive Erroneously rendered into another language.

Mistranslating

MISTRANSLA'TING, participle present tense Translating incorrectly.

Mistranslation

MISTRANSLA'TION, noun An erroneous translation or version.

Mistress

MIS'TRESS, noun [Latin magistra.]

1. A woman who governs; correlative to servant, slave, or subject.

My mistress here lies murdered in her bed.

2. The female head of a family.

3. That which governs; a sovereign. Rome was mistress of the world.

4. One that commands, or has possession and sovereignty. The queen is mistress of the Indies.

5. A female who is well skilled in any thing; as, she is mistress of arithmetic.

6. A woman teacher; an instructress of a school.

7. A woman beloved and courted.

8. A woman in keeping for lewd purposes.

9. A term of contemptuous address.

MIS'TRESS, verb transitive To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

Mistress-Ship

MIS'TRESS-SHIP, noun Female rule or dominion.

Mistrust

MISTRUST', noun Want of confidence or trust; suspicion.

MISTRUST', verb transitive To suspect; to doubt; to regard with jealousy or suspicion.

Fate her own book mistrusted at the sight.

Mistrusted

MISTRUST'ED, participle passive Suspected.

Mistrustful

MISTRUST'FUL, adjective Suspicious; doubting; wanting confidence in.

Mistrustfully

MISTRUST'FULLY, adverb With suspicion or doubt.

Mistrustfulness

MISTRUST'FULNESS, noun Suspicion; doubt.

Mistrusting

MISTRUST'ING, participle present tense Suspecting; having no confidence in.

Mistrustingly

MISTRUST'INGLY, adverb With distrust or suspicion.

Mistrustless

MISTRUST'LESS, adjective Unsuspecting; unsuspicious.

Mistune

MISTU'NE, verb transitive To tune wrong or erroneously; to put out of tune.

Misturn

MISTURN', verb transitive To pervert. [Not used.]

Mistutor

MISTU'TOR, verb transitive To instruct amiss.

Misunderstand

MISUNDERSTAND', verb transitive To misconceive; to mistake; to take in a wrong sense.

Misunderstanding

MISUNDERSTAND'ING, participle present tense Mistaking the meaning.

MISUNDERSTAND'ING, noun Misconception; mistake of the meaning; error.

1. Disagreement; difference; dissension; sometimes a softer name for quarrel.

Misunderstood

MISUNDERSTOOD', participle passive Misconceived; mistaken; understood erroneously.

Misusage

MISUSAGE, noun misyu'zage. Ill usage; abuse.

Misuse

MISUSE, verb transitive misyu'ze.

1. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose.

2. To abuse; to treat ill.

MISUSE, noun misyu'se. Ill treatment; improper use; employment to a bad purpose; as the misuse of mercies.

1. Abuse; ill treatment.

2. Wrong application; misapplication; erroneous use; as the misuse of words.

Misused

MISUSED, participle passive misyu'zed. Improperly used or applied; misapplied; misemployed; abused.

Misusing

MISUSING, participle present tense misyu'zing. Using improperly; abusing; misapplying.

Misvouch

MISVOUCH', verb transitive To vouch falsely.

Miswear

MISWEAR, verb transitive To swear ill.

Miswed

MISWED', verb transitive To wed improperly.

Miswedded

MISWED'DED, participle passive Ill matched.

Misween

MISWEE'N, verb intransitive To misjudge; to distrust.

Miswend

MISWEND', verb intransitive To go wrong.

Miswrite

MISWRI'TE, verb transitive [See Write.] To write incorrectly.

Miswrought

MISWROUGHT, adjective misraut'. Badly wrought.

Misy

MISY. [See Missy.]

Miszealous

MISZEALOUS, adjective miszel'ous. Actuated by false zeal.

Mite

MITE, noun [Heb. small.]

1. A very small insect of the genus Acarus.

2. In Scripture, a small piece of money, the quarter of a denarius, or about seven English farthings.

3. Any thing proverbially very small; a very little particle or quantity.

4. The twentieth part of a grain.

Mitella

MITEL'LA, noun A plant.

Miter

MI'TER, noun

1. A sacerdotal ornament worn on the head by bishops and certain abbots, on solemn occasions.

2. In architecture, an angle of 45 degrees.

3. In Irish history, a sort of base money or coin.

4. Figuratively, the dignity of bishops or abbots.

MI'TER, verb transitive To adorn with a miter

1. To unite at an angle of 45 degrees.

Mitered

MI'TERED, participle present tense or adjective Wearing a miter.

1. Honored with the privilege of wearing a miter.

2. Cut or joined at an angle of 45 degrees.

Mithic

MITHIC. [See Mythic.]

Mithridate

MITH'RIDATE, noun In pharmacy, an antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison. It takes its name from Mithridates, king of Pontus, the inventor.

Mithridatic

MITHRIDAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to mithridate, or its inventor, Mithridates.

Mitigable

MIT'IGABLE, adjective That may be mitigated.

Mitigant

MIT'IGANT, adjective [Latin mitigans, mitigo, from mitis, mild.]

1. Softening; lenient; lenitive.

2. Diminishing; easing; as pain.

Mitigate

MIT'IGATE, verb transitive [Latin . mitigo, from mitis, soft, mild.]

1. To alleviate, as suffering; to assuage; to lessen; as, to mitigate pain or grief.

And counsel mitigates the greatest smart.

2. To make less severe; as, to mitigate doom.

3. To abate; to make less rigorous; to moderate; as, to mitigate cold; to mitigate the severity of the season.

4. To temper; to moderate; to soften in harshness or severity.

We could wish that the rigor of their opinions were allayed and mitigated.

5. To calm; to appease; to moderate; as, to mitigate the fierceness of party.

6. To diminish; to render more tolerable; as, to mitigate the evils or calamities of life; to mitigate punishment.

7. To reduce in amount or severity; as, to mitigate a penalty.

8. To soften, or make mild and accessible; in a literal sense.

It was this opinion which mitigated kings into companions. [Unusual.]

Mitigated

MIT'IGATED, participle passive Softened; alleviated; moderated; diminished.

Mitigating

MIT'IGATING, participle present tense Softening; alleviating; tempering; moderating; abating.

Mitigation

MITIGA'TION, noun [Latin mitigatio.] Alleviation; abatement or diminution of any thing painful, harsh, severe, afflictive or calamitous; as the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment or penalty.

Mitigative

MIT'IGATIVE, adjective Lenitive; tending to alleviate.

Mitigator

MIT'IGATOR, noun He or that which mitigates.

Mitten

MIT'TEN, noun

1. A cover for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or other injury. It differs from a glove, in not having a separate cover for each finger.

2. A cover for the arm only.

To handle without mittens, to treat roughly; a popular colloquial phrase.

Mittent

MIT'TENT, adjective [Latin mittens, from mitto, to send.]

Sending forth; emitting. [Not used.]

Mittimus

MIT'TIMUS, noun [Latin we send.] In law, a precept or command in writing, under the hand or hand and seal of a justice of the peace or other proper officer, directed to the keeper of a prison, requiring him to imprison an offender; a warrant of commitment to prison.

1. A writ for removing records from one court to another.

Mitu

MITU, noun A fowl of the turkey kind, found in Brazil.

Mity

MI'TY, adjective [from mite.] Having or abounding with mites.

Mix

MIX, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive mixed or mixt. [Latin misceo, mixtum; Heb. to mix ]

1. To unite or blend promiscuously two or more ingredients into a mass or compound; applied both to solids and liquids; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.

2. To join; to associate; to unite with in company.

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. Hosea 7.

3. To join; to mingle.

You mix your sadness with some fear.

4. To unite with a crowd or multitude.

MIX, verb intransitive To become united or blended promiscuously in a mass or compound. Oil and water will not mix without the intervention of a third substance.

1. To be joined or associated; as, to mix with the multitude, or to mix in society.

Mixed

MIX'ED, participle passive United in a promiscuous mass or compound; blended; joined; mingled; associated.

1. adjective Promiscuous; consisting of various kinds or different things; as a mixed multitude.

Mixen

MIX'EN, noun A dunghill; a laystall.

Mixer

MIX'ER, noun One who mixes or mingles.

Mixing

MIX'ING, participle present tense Uniting or blending in a mass or compound; joining in company; associating.

Mixtilineal

MIXTILIN'EAL

MIXTILIN'EAR, adjective [Latin mixtus, mixed, and linea, line.]

Containing a mixture of lines, right, curved, etc.

Mixtilinear

MIXTILIN'EAR, a. [L. mixtus, mixed, and linea, line.]

Containing a mixture of lines, right, curved, &c.

Mixtion

MIX'TION, noun [Latin mixtus.] Mixture; promiscuous assemblage.

Mixtly

MIXT'LY, adverb With mixture.

Mixture

MIX'TURE, noun [Latin mixtura.] The act of mixing, or state of being mixed. Compounds are made by the mixture of different substances.

1. A mass or compound, consisting of different ingredients blended without order. In this life there is a mixture of good and evil. Most wines in market are base mixtures.

2. The ingredient added and mixed. Cicero doubted whether it is possible for a community to exist without a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution.

3. In pharmacy, a liquid medicine which receives into its composition not only extracts, salts and other substances dissolvable in water, but earths, powders and other substances not dissolvable.

4. In chimistry, mixture differs from combination. In mixture the several ingredients are blended without an alteration of the substances, each of which still retains its own nature and properties. In combination, the substances unite by chimical attraction, and losing their distinct properties, they form a compound differing in its properties from either of the ingredients.

Mizmaze

MIZ'MAZE, noun A cant word for a maze or labyrinth.

Mizzen

MIZZEN, noun miz'n. In sea-language, the aftermost of the fixed sails of a ship, extended sometimes by a gaff, and sometimes by a yard which crosses the mast obliquely.

Mizzen-Mast

MIZ'ZEN-MAST, noun The mast which supports the after-sails, and stands nearest to the stern.

Mizzle

MIZ'ZLE, verb intransitive To mistle. [See Mistle.]

Mizzy

MIZ'ZY, noun A bog or quagmire.

Mnemonic

MNEMONIC, adjective nemon'ic. [infra.] Assisting the memory.

Mnemonics

MNEMON'ICS, noun [from Gr. to remember.] The art of memory; the precepts and rules intended to teach the method of assisting the memory.

Mo

MO, adjective More.

Moan

MOAN, verb transitive To lament; to deplore; to bewail with an audible voice.

Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan

My dear Columbo dead and gone.

MOAN, verb intransitive To grieve; to make lamentations.

Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans.

MOAN, noun Lamentation; audible expression of sorrow; grief expressed in words or cried.

Sullen moans,

Hollow groans.

Moaned

MOANED, participle passive Lamented; deplored.

Moanful

MOANFUL, adjective Sorrowful; expressing sorrow.

Moanfully

MOANFULLY, adverb With lamentation.

Moaning

MOANING, participle present tense Lamenting; bewailing.