MISCARRY — MISHAP NWAD MISCARRY.1

MISCARRY, v.i. To fail of the intended effect; not to succeed; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat; applied to persons or undertakings, and to things. We say, a project, scheme, design, enterprise, attempt, has miscarried. NWAD MISCARRY.1

Have you not heart of Frederick, the great soldier, who miscarried at sea? NWAD MISCARRY.2

My ships have all miscarried. NWAD MISCARRY.3

1. To bring forth young before the proper time; to suffer abortion. NWAD MISCARRY.4

MISCARRYING, ppr. Failing of the intended effect; suffering abortion. Hosea 9:14. NWAD MISCARRYING.1

MISCAST, v.t. To cast or reckon erroneously. NWAD MISCAST.1

MISC`AST, pp. Erroneously cast or reckoned. NWAD MISCAST.2

MISC`AST, n. An erroneous cast or reckoning. NWAD MISCAST.3

MISCASTING, ppr. Casting or reckoning erroneously. NWAD MISCASTING.1

MISCELLANARIAN, a. [See Miscellany.] NWAD MISCELLANARIAN.1

Belonging to miscellanies; of miscellanies. NWAD MISCELLANARIAN.2

Miscellanarian authors. NWAD MISCELLANARIAN.3

MISCELLANARIAN, n. A writer of miscellanies. NWAD MISCELLANARIAN.4

MISCELLANE, n. [L. miscellaneus.] A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; now called meslin. NWAD MISCELLANE.1

MISCELLANEOUS, a. [L. miscellaneus, from misceo, to mix.] NWAD MISCELLANEOUS.1

Mixed; mingled; consisting of several kinds; as a miscellaneous publication; a miscellaneous rabble. NWAD MISCELLANEOUS.2

MISCELLANEOUSNESS, n. The state of being mixed; composition of various kinds. NWAD MISCELLANEOUSNESS.1

MISCELLANY, n. [L. miscellanea, from misceo, to mix.] NWAD MISCELLANY.1

1. A mass or mixture of various kinds; particularly, NWAD MISCELLANY.2

2. A book or pamphlet containing a collection of compositions on various subjects, or a collection of various kinds of compositions. NWAD MISCELLANY.3

MISCELLANY, a. Miscellaneous. NWAD MISCELLANY.4

MISCENTER, v.t. To place amiss. [Not in use.] NWAD MISCENTER.1

MISCHANCE, n. Ill luck; ill fortune; misfortune; mishap; misadventure. NWAD MISCHANCE.1

It is a man’s unhappiness, his mischance or calamity, but not his fault. NWAD MISCHANCE.2

MISCHARACTERIZE, v.t. [See Character.] To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. NWAD MISCHARACTERIZE.1

They totally mischaracterize the action. NWAD MISCHARACTERIZE.2

MISCHARGE, v.t. To mistake in charging, as an account. NWAD MISCHARGE.1

MISCH`ARGE, n. A mistake in charging, as an account; an erroneous entry in an account. NWAD MISCHARGE.2

MISCHIEF, n. NWAD MISCHIEF.1

1. Harm; hurt; injury; damage; evil, whether intended or not. A new law is made to remedy the mischief. NWAD MISCHIEF.2

2. Intentional injury; harm or damage done by design. NWAD MISCHIEF.3

Thy tongue deviseth mischief. Psalm 52:2. NWAD MISCHIEF.4

3. Ill consequence; evil; vexatious affair. NWAD MISCHIEF.5

The mischief was, these allies would never allow that the common enemy was subdued. NWAD MISCHIEF.6

MISCHIEF, v.t. To hurt; to harm; to injure. NWAD MISCHIEF.7

MISCHIEF-MAKER, n. One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity. NWAD MISCHIEF-MAKER.1

MISCHIEF-MAKING, a. Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. NWAD MISCHIEF-MAKING.1

MISCHIEVOUS, a. Harmful; hurtful; injurious; making mischief; of persons; as a mischievous man or disposition. NWAD MISCHIEVOUS.1

1. Hurtful; noxious; as a mischievous thing. NWAD MISCHIEVOUS.2

2. Inclined to do harm; as a mischievous boy. NWAD MISCHIEVOUS.3

MISCHIEVOUSLY, adv. With injury, hurt, loss or damage. We say, the law operates mischievously. NWAD MISCHIEVOUSLY.1

1. With evil intention or disposition. The injury was done mischievously. NWAD MISCHIEVOUSLY.2

MISCHIEVOUSNESS, n. Hurtfulness; noxiousness. NWAD MISCHIEVOUSNESS.1

1. Disposition to do harm, or to vex or annoy; as the mischievousness of youth. NWAD MISCHIEVOUSNESS.2

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. NWAD MISCHIEVOUSNESS.3

MISCHNA, n. A part of the Jewish Talmud. [See Mishna.] NWAD MISCHNA.1

MISCHOOSE, v.t. mischooz’. To choose wrong; to make a wrong choice. NWAD MISCHOOSE.1

MISCHOSEN, pp. Chosen by mistake. NWAD MISCHOSEN.1

MISCIBLE, a. [L. misceo, to mix.] NWAD MISCIBLE.1

That may be mixed. Oil and water are not miscible. NWAD MISCIBLE.2

MISCITATION, n. A wrong citation; erroneous quotation. NWAD MISCITATION.1

MISCITE, v.t. To cite erroneously or falsely. NWAD MISCITE.1

MISCLAIM, n. A mistaken claim or demand. NWAD MISCLAIM.1

MISCOMPUTATION, n. Erroneous computation; false reckoning. NWAD MISCOMPUTATION.1

MISCOMPUTE, v.t. To compute or reckon erroneously. NWAD MISCOMPUTE.1

MISCONCEIT, MISCONCEPTION, n. Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong notion or understanding of a thing. NWAD MISCONCEIT.1

Great errors and dangers result from a misconception of the names of things. NWAD MISCONCEIT.2

MISCONCEIVE, v.t. or i. To receive a false notion or opinion of any thing; to misjudge; to have an erroneous understanding of any thing. NWAD MISCONCEIVE.1

To yield to others just and reasonable causes of those things, which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. NWAD MISCONCEIVE.2

MISCONCEIVED, pp. Wrongly understood; mistaken. NWAD MISCONCEIVED.1

MISCONCEIVING, ppr. Mistaking; misunderstanding. NWAD MISCONCEIVING.1

MISCONDUCT, n. Wrong conduct; ill behavior; ill management. NWAD MISCONDUCT.1

MISCONDUCT, v.t. To conduct amiss; to mismanage. NWAD MISCONDUCT.2

MISCONDUCT, v.i. To behave amiss. NWAD MISCONDUCT.3

MISCONDUCTED, pp. Ill managed; badly conducted. NWAD MISCONDUCTED.1

MISCONDUCTING, ppr. Mismanaging; misbehaving. NWAD MISCONDUCTING.1

MISCONJECTURE, n. A wrong conjecture or guess. NWAD MISCONJECTURE.1

MISCONJECTURE, v.t. or i. To guess wrong. NWAD MISCONJECTURE.2

MISCONSTRUCTION, n. Wrong interpretation of words or things; a mistaking of the true meaning; as a misconstruction of words or actions. NWAD MISCONSTRUCTION.1

MISCONSTRUE, v.t. To interpret erroneously either words or things. It is important not to misconstrue the Scriptures. NWAD MISCONSTRUE.1

Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent. NWAD MISCONSTRUE.2

A virtuous emperor was much affected to find his actions misconstrued. NWAD MISCONSTRUE.3

MISCONSTRUED, pp. Erroneously interpreted. NWAD MISCONSTRUED.1

MISCONSTRUER, n. One who makes a wrong interpretation. NWAD MISCONSTRUER.1

MISCONSTRUING, ppr. Interpreting wrongly. NWAD MISCONSTRUING.1

MISCORRECT, v.t. To correct erroneously; to mistake in attempting to correct another. NWAD MISCORRECT.1

He passed the first seven years of his life at Mantua, not seventeen, as Scaliger miscorrects his author. NWAD MISCORRECT.2

MISCORRECTED, pp. Mistaken in the attempt to correct. NWAD MISCORRECTED.1

MISCOUNSEL, v.t. To advise wrong. NWAD MISCOUNSEL.1

MISCOUNT, v.t. To count erroneously; to mistake in counting. NWAD MISCOUNT.1

MISCOUNT, v.i. To make a wrong reckoning. NWAD MISCOUNT.2

MISCOUNT, n. An erroneous counting or numbering. NWAD MISCOUNT.3

MISCREANCE, MISCREANCY, n. [See Miscreant.] Unbelief; false faith; adherence to a false religion. NWAD MISCREANCE.1

MISCREANT, n. [L. credens, credo.] NWAD MISCREANT.1

1. An infidel, or one who embraces a false faith. NWAD MISCREANT.2

2. A vile wretch; an unprincipled fellow. NWAD MISCREANT.3

MISCREATE, MISCREATED, a. Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed. NWAD MISCREATE.1

MISDATE, n. A wrong date. NWAD MISDATE.1

MISDATE, v.i. To date erroneously. NWAD MISDATE.2

MISDEED, n. An evil deed; a wicked action. NWAD MISDEED.1

Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. NWAD MISDEED.2

MISDEEM, v.t. To judge erroneously; to misjudge; to mistake in judging. NWAD MISDEEM.1

MISDEMEAN, v.t. To behave ill. NWAD MISDEMEAN.1

MISDEMEANOR, n. Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault; mismanagement. NWAD MISDEMEANOR.1

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. NWAD MISDEMEANOR.2

MISDESERT, n. Ill desert. NWAD MISDESERT.1

MISDEVOTION, n. False devotion; mistaken piety. [Little used.] NWAD MISDEVOTION.1

MISDIET, n. Improper diet or food. [Not used.] NWAD MISDIET.1

MISDIRECT, v.t. To give a wrong direction to; as to misdirect a passenger. NWAD MISDIRECT.1

1. To direct to a wrong person or place; as, to misdirect a letter. NWAD MISDIRECT.2

MISDIRECTED, pp. Directed wrong, or to a wrong person or place. NWAD MISDIRECTED.1

MISDIRECTING, ppr. Directing wrong, or to a wrong person or place. NWAD MISDIRECTING.1

MISDISPOSITION, n. Disposition to evil. [Not in use.] NWAD MISDISPOSITION.1

MISDISTINGUISH, v.t. To make wrong distinctions. NWAD MISDISTINGUISH.1

MISDO, v.t. [See Do.] To do wrong; to do amiss; to commit a crime or fault. NWAD MISDO.1

MISDOER, n. One who does wrong; one who commits a fault or crime. NWAD MISDOER.1

MISDOING, ppr. Doing wrong; committing a fault or crime. NWAD MISDOING.1

MISDOING, n. A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense. NWAD MISDOING.2

MISDOUBT, v.t. misdout’. [See Doubt.] To suspect of deceit or danger. [An ill formed word and not in use.] NWAD MISDOUBT.1

MISDOUBT, n. Suspicion of crime or danger. [Not used.] NWAD MISDOUBT.2

1. Irresolution; hesitation. [Not used.] NWAD MISDOUBT.3

MISDOUBTFUL, a. Misgiving. [Not used.] NWAD MISDOUBTFUL.1

MISE, n. meze. [L. mitto.] NWAD MISE.1

1. In law, an issue to be tried at the grand assize. NWAD MISE.2

2. Expense; cost. NWAD MISE.3

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. NWAD MISE.4

MISEMPLOY, v.t. To employ to no purpose, or to a bad purpose; as, to misemploy time, power, advantages, talents, etc. NWAD MISEMPLOY.1

MISEMPLOYED, pp. Used to no purpose, or to a bad one. NWAD MISEMPLOYED.1

MISEMPLOYING, ppr. Using to no purpose, or to a bad one. NWAD MISEMPLOYING.1

MISEMPLOYMENT, n. Ill employment; application to no purpose, or to a bad purpose. NWAD MISEMPLOYMENT.1

MISENTRY, n. An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account. NWAD MISENTRY.1

MISER, n. s as z. [L. miser, miserable.] A miserable person; one wretched or afflicted. NWAD MISER.1

1. A wretch; a mean fellow. NWAD MISER.2

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.] NWAD MISER.3

No silver saints by dying misers given. NWAD MISER.4

MISERABALE, a. s as z. [L. miser, miserabilis.] NWAD MISERABALE.1

1. Very unhappy from grief, pain, calamity, poverty, apprehension of evil, or other cause. It however expresses somewhat less than wretched. NWAD MISERABALE.2

What hopes delude thee, miserable man? NWAD MISERABALE.3

2. Very poor; worthless. NWAD MISERABALE.4

Miserable comforters are ye all. Job 16:2. NWAD MISERABALE.5

3. Causing unhappiness or misery. NWAD MISERABALE.6

What’s more miserable than discontent? NWAD MISERABALE.7

4. Very poor or mean; as a miserable hut; miserable clothing. NWAD MISERABALE.8

5. Very poor or barren; as a miserable soil. NWAD MISERABALE.9

6. Very low or despicable; as a miserable person. NWAD MISERABALE.10

MISERABLENESS, n. State of misery; poorness. NWAD MISERABLENESS.1

MISERABLY, adv. Unhappily; calamitously. NWAD MISERABLY.1

The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. NWAD MISERABLY.2

1. Very poorly or meanly; wretchedly. They were miserably entertained. NWAD MISERABLY.3

2. In misery or unhappiness. NWAD MISERABLY.4

MISERLY, a. [See Miser.] Very covetous; sordid; niggardly; parsimonious. NWAD MISERLY.1

MISERY, n. s as z. [L. miseria.] NWAD MISERY.1

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. NWAD MISERY.2

Misery is as really the fruit of vice reigning in the heart, as tares are the produce of tares sown in the field. NWAD MISERY.3

2. Calamity; misfortune; natural evils which are the cause of misery. NWAD MISERY.4

And mourn the miseries of human life. NWAD MISERY.5

3. Covetousness. [Not used.] NWAD MISERY.6

MISESTIMATE, v.t. To estimate erroneously. NWAD MISESTIMATE.1

MISFALL, v.t. To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. NWAD MISFALL.1

MISFARE, n. Ill fare; misfortune. NWAD MISFARE.1

MISFASHION, v.t. To form wrong. NWAD MISFASHION.1

MISFEASANCE, n. misfe’zance. In law, a trespass; a wrong done. NWAD MISFEASANCE.1

MISFORM, v.t. To make of an ill form; to put in an ill shape. NWAD MISFORM.1

MISFORTUNE, n. Ill fortune; ill luck; calamity; an evil or cross accident; as loss of property at sea or by fire. NWAD MISFORTUNE.1

Consider why the change was wrought, NWAD MISFORTUNE.2

You’ll find it his misfortune, not his fault. NWAD MISFORTUNE.3

MISFORTUNED, a. Unfortunate. NWAD MISFORTUNED.1

MISGIVE, v.t. misgiv’. [See Give.] To fill with doubt; to deprive of confidence; to fail; usually applied to the heart. NWAD MISGIVE.1

So doth my heart misgive me. NWAD MISGIVE.2

His heart misgave him. NWAD MISGIVE.3

1. To give or grant amiss. [Not in use.] NWAD MISGIVE.4

MISGIVING, ppr. Filling with doubt or distrust; failing. NWAD MISGIVING.1

MISGIVING, n. A failing of confidence; doubt; distrust. NWAD MISGIVING.2

Doubts, suspicions and misgivings. NWAD MISGIVING.3

MISGOTTEN, a. Unjustly obtained. NWAD MISGOTTEN.1

MISGOVERN, v.t. To govern ill; to administer unfaithfully. NWAD MISGOVERN.1

Solyman charged him bitterly that he had misgoverned the state. NWAD MISGOVERN.2

MISGOVERNANCE, n. Ill government; disorder; irregularity. NWAD MISGOVERNANCE.1

MISGOVERNED, pp. Ill governed; badly administered. NWAD MISGOVERNED.1

1. Rude; unrestrained; as rude, misgoverned hands. NWAD MISGOVERNED.2

MISGOVERNMENT, n. Ill administration of public affairs. NWAD MISGOVERNMENT.1

1. Ill management in private affairs. NWAD MISGOVERNMENT.2

2. Irregularity; disorder. NWAD MISGOVERNMENT.3

MISGRAFF, v.t. To graft amiss. NWAD MISGRAFF.1

MISGROUND, v.t. To found erroneously. NWAD MISGROUND.1

MISGUIDANCE, n. Wrong direction; guidance into error. NWAD MISGUIDANCE.1

MISGUIDE, v.t. To lead or guide into error; to direct ill; as, to misguide the understanding or mind. NWAD MISGUIDE.1

MISGUIDED, pp. Let astray by evil counsel or wrong direction; as a misguided prince. NWAD MISGUIDED.1

MISGUIDING, ppr. Giving wrong direction to; leading into error. NWAD MISGUIDING.1

MISGUM, MISGURN, n. An anguilliform fish about the size of a common eel. NWAD MISGUM.1

MISHAP, n. Ill chance; evil accident; ill luck; misfortune. NWAD MISHAP.1

Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. NWAD MISHAP.2