MISRECKONED — MISTRUSTLESS

MISRECKONED — MISTRUSTLESS NWAD MISRECKONED.1

MISRECKONED, pp. Reckoned or computed erroneously. NWAD MISRECKONED.1

MISRECKONING, ppr. Reckoning wrong; and as a noun, an erroneous computation. NWAD MISRECKONING.1

MISRELATE, v.t. To relate falsely or inaccurately. NWAD MISRELATE.1

MISRELATED, pp. Erroneously related or told. NWAD MISRELATED.1

MISRELATING, ppr. Relating or telling erroneously. NWAD MISRELATING.1

MISRELATION, n. Erroneous relation or narration. NWAD MISRELATION.1

MISREMEMBER, v.t. To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. NWAD MISREMEMBER.1

MISREMEMBERED, pp. Inaccurately recollected. NWAD MISREMEMBERED.1

MISREMEMBERING, ppr. Remembering inaccurately. NWAD MISREMEMBERING.1

MISREPORT, v.t. To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. NWAD MISREPORT.1

MISREPORT, n. An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given. NWAD MISREPORT.2

MISREPORTED, pp. Incorrectly reported. NWAD MISREPORTED.1

MISREPORTING, ppr. Reporting incorrectly. NWAD MISREPORTING.1

MISREPRESENT, v.t. To represent falsely or incorrectly; to give a false or erroneous representation, either maliciously, ignorantly or carelessly. NWAD MISREPRESENT.1

MISREPRESENTATION, n. The act of giving a false or erroneous representation. NWAD MISREPRESENTATION.1

1. A false or incorrect account given, either from mistake, carelessness or malice. NWAD MISREPRESENTATION.2

MISREPRESENTED, pp. Falsely or erroneously represented. NWAD MISREPRESENTED.1

MISREPRESENTER, n. One who gives a false or erroneous account. NWAD MISREPRESENTER.1

MISREPRESENTING, ppr. Giving a false or erroneous representation. NWAD MISREPRESENTING.1

[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.] NWAD MISREPRESENTING.2

MISREPUTE, v.t. To have in wrong estimation. NWAD MISREPUTE.1

MISREPUTED, pp. or a. Erroneously reputed. NWAD MISREPUTED.1

MISRULE, n. Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination. NWAD MISRULE.1

Enormous riot and misrule-- NWAD MISRULE.2

1. Unjust domination. NWAD MISRULE.3

MISRULY, a. Unruly; ungovernable; turbulent. NWAD MISRULY.1

MISS, n. NWAD MISS.1

1. The title of a young woman or girl; as little masters and misses. NWAD MISS.2

2. A kept mistress; a prostitute retained; a concubine. NWAD MISS.3

MISS, v.t. [L. mitto, misi; omitto, omisi.] NWAD MISS.4

1. To fail in aim; to fail of reaching the object; not to hit; as, to miss the mark; to miss the object intended. NWAD MISS.5

2. To fail of finding the right way; to err in attempting to find; as, to miss the way or the road. NWAD MISS.6

3. To fail of obtaining. NWAD MISS.7

Orgalus feared nothing but to miss Parthenia. NWAD MISS.8

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. NWAD MISS.9

Neither missed we any thing--. Nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. 1 Samuel 25:15. NWAD MISS.10

5. To be without; as, we cannot miss him. NWAD MISS.11

6. To omit; to pass by; to go without; to fail to have; as, to miss a meal of victuals. NWAD MISS.12

She would never miss one day NWAD MISS.13

A walk so fine, a sight so gay. NWAD MISS.14

7. To perceive the want of. NWAD MISS.15

What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss, NWAD MISS.16

He who has a firm sincere friend, may want all the rest without missing them. NWAD MISS.17

8. To fail of seeing or finding. NWAD MISS.18

MISS, v.i. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction. NWAD MISS.19

Flying bullets now, NWAD MISS.20

To execute his rage, appear too slow; NWAD MISS.21

They miss, or sweep but common souls away. NWAD MISS.22

1. Not to succeed; to fail. NWAD MISS.23

Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss-- NWAD MISS.24

2. To fail; to miscarry, as by accident. NWAD MISS.25

The invention all admired, and each, how he NWAD MISS.26

To be the inventor missed. NWAD MISS.27

3. To fail to obtain, learn or find; with of. NWAD MISS.28

On the least reflection, we can miss of them. NWAD MISS.29

4. To fail; to mistake. NWAD MISS.30

MISS, n. Loss; want. NWAD MISS.31

There will be no great miss of those which are lost. NWAD MISS.32

1. Mistake; error. NWAD MISS.33

He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. [Little used.] NWAD MISS.34

2. Harm from mistake. NWAD MISS.35

MISSAL, n. The Romish mass-book. NWAD MISSAL.1

MISSAY, v.t. To say wrong; to slander. [Little used.] NWAD MISSAY.1

MISSAY, v.i. To speak ill. NWAD MISSAY.2

MISSAYING, n. Wrong expression. NWAD MISSAYING.1

MISSEEM, v.i. To make a false appearance. NWAD MISSEEM.1

1. To misbecome. NWAD MISSEEM.2

MISSEL, MISSEL-BIRD, n. A species of thrush. NWAD MISSEL.1

MISSELDINE, n. The mistletoe. [Not used.] NWAD MISSELDINE.1

MISSEMBLANCE, n. False resemblance. NWAD MISSEMBLANCE.1

MISSERVE, v.t. misserv’. To serve unfaithfully. NWAD MISSERVE.1

MISSHAPE, v.t. [See Shape.] To shape ill; to give an ill form to; to deform. NWAD MISSHAPE.1

And horribly misshapes with ugly sights. NWAD MISSHAPE.2

A misshaped figure. NWAD MISSHAPE.3

Misshapen mountains. NWAD MISSHAPE.4

MISSHAPED, MISSHAPEN, pp. Ill formed; deformed; ugly. NWAD MISSHAPED.1

MISSILE, a. [L. missilis, from missus, sent; mitto, to send.] NWAD MISSILE.1

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. NWAD MISSILE.2

MISSING, ppr. [from miss.] Failing to hit, to reach or to find; discovering to be wanting. NWAD MISSING.1

1. a. Lost; absent from the place where it was expected to be found; wanting. My horse is missing; my pen or my book is missing. NWAD MISSING.2

For a time caught up to God, as once NWAD MISSING.3

Moses was in the mount, and missing long. NWAD MISSING.4

MISSION, n. [L. missio, from mitto, to send.] NWAD MISSION.1

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. NWAD MISSION.2

How to begin, how to accomplish best NWAD MISSION.3

His end of being on earth, and mission high. NWAD MISSION.4

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. NWAD MISSION.5

3. Dismission; discharge from service; a Roman use of the word; in English, obsolete. NWAD MISSION.6

4. Faction; party. [Not in use.] NWAD MISSION.7

MISSIONARY, n. One sent to propagate religion. Christian missionaries are called missionaries of the cross. NWAD MISSIONARY.1

MISSIONARY, a. Pertaining to mission; as a missionary meeting; a missionary fund. NWAD MISSIONARY.2

MISSIONER, for missionary, is not used. NWAD MISSIONER.1

MISSIVE, a. Such as is sent; as a letter missive. NWAD MISSIVE.1

1. Thrown or sent, or such as may be sent; as a missive weapon. NWAD MISSIVE.2

MISSIVE, n. A letter sent, or messenger. NWAD MISSIVE.3

MISSPEAK, v.i. [See Speak.] To err or mistake in speaking. NWAD MISSPEAK.1

MISSPEAK, v.t. To utter wrong. NWAD MISSPEAK.2

MISSPELL, v.t. To spell wrong; to write or utter with wrong letters. NWAD MISSPELL.1

MISSPELLED, MISSPELT, pp. Spelled wrong, or with wrong letters. NWAD MISSPELLED.1

MISSPELLING, ppr. Spelling wrong. NWAD MISSPELLING.1

MISSPELLING, n. A wrong spelling; false orthography. NWAD MISSPELLING.2

MISSPEND, v.t. To spend amiss; to waste or consume to no purpose, or to a bad one; as, to misspend time or money; to misspend life. NWAD MISSPEND.1

1. To waste. NWAD MISSPEND.2

The genial moisture due NWAD MISSPEND.3

To apples, otherwise misspends itself. NWAD MISSPEND.4

MISSPENDER, n. One that consumes prodigally or improperly. NWAD MISSPENDER.1

MISSPENDING, pp. Spending to no purpose, or to a bad one. NWAD MISSPENDING.1

MISSPENSE, n. misspens’. A spending improperly; a wasting. NWAD MISSPENSE.1

MISSPENT, ppr. Ill spent; expended or consumed to no purpose, or to a bad one; as misspent time or life. NWAD MISSPENT.1

MISSPOKE, MISSPOKEN, pp. Uttered or spoken amiss. NWAD MISSPOKE.1

MISSTATE, v.t. To state wrong; to make an erroneous representation of facts; as, to misstate a question in debate. NWAD MISSTATE.1

MISSTATED, pp. Stated erroneously. NWAD MISSTATED.1

MISSTATEMENT, n. A wrong statement; an erroneous representation, verbal or written; as a misstatement of facts in testimony, or of accounts in a report. NWAD MISSTATEMENT.1

MISSTATING, ppr. Stating falsely or erroneously. NWAD MISSTATING.1

MISSY, n. The sulphate of iron, having lost the water of its crystallization, is called sori; more thoroughly calcined, it is yellow, and called missy. NWAD MISSY.1

MIST, n. [L. mixtus, mistus, from misceo, to mix.] NWAD MIST.1

1. Water falling in very numerous, but fine and almost imperceptible drops. NWAD MIST.2

A mist is a multitude of small but solid globules, which therefore descend. NWAD MIST.3

2. That which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision. NWAD MIST.4

His passion cast a mist before his sense. NWAD MIST.5

MIST, v.t. To cloud; to cover with vapor. NWAD MIST.6

MIST-ENCUMBERED, a. Loaded with mist. NWAD MIST-ENCUMBERED.1

MISTAKABLE, a. That may be misconceived or mistaken. NWAD MISTAKABLE.1

MISTAKE, v.t. To take wrong; to conceive or understand erroneously; to misunderstand or misapprehend. NWAD MISTAKE.1

‘Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain. NWAD MISTAKE.2

1. To take one thing or person for another. NWAD MISTAKE.3

We mistake the eloquence of self-apology for the animation of conscious integrity. NWAD MISTAKE.4

A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it. NWAD MISTAKE.5

MISTAKE, v.i. To err in opinion or judgment. NWAD MISTAKE.6

Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends. NWAD MISTAKE.7

MISTAKE, n. An error in opinion or judgment; misconception. NWAD MISTAKE.8

Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake. NWAD MISTAKE.9

1. A slip; a fault; an error. There is a mistake in the account or in the date. NWAD MISTAKE.10

MISTAKEN. 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. NWAD MISTAKEN.1

MISTAKER, n. One that mistakes or misunderstands. NWAD MISTAKER.1

MISTAKING, ppr. Making a mistake; erring from the truth; misconceiving. NWAD MISTAKING.1

MISTAKING, n. An error; a mistake. NWAD MISTAKING.2

MISTAKINGLY, adv. Erroneously; falsely. NWAD MISTAKINGLY.1

MISTAUGHT, pp. Wrongly taught; as a mistaught youth. NWAD MISTAUGHT.1

MISTEACH, v.t. [See Teach.] To teach wrong; to instruct erroneously. NWAD MISTEACH.1

MISTEACHING, ppr. Instructing erroneously. NWAD MISTEACHING.1

MISTELL, v.t. [See Tell.] To tell erroneously. NWAD MISTELL.1

MISTEMPER, v.t. To temper ill; to disorder. NWAD MISTEMPER.1

MISTEMPERED, pp. Tempered ill. NWAD MISTEMPERED.1

MISTER, n. The common title of address to gentlemen, and to men of all classes. In writing, it is expressed by the abbreviation Mr. NWAD MISTER.1

MISTER, v.t. To occasion loss. [Not in use.] NWAD MISTER.2

MISTERM, v.t. To term or denominate erroneously. NWAD MISTERM.1

MISTERMED, pp. Wrongly denominated. NWAD MISTERMED.1

MISTERMING, ppr. Denominating erroneously. NWAD MISTERMING.1

MISTFUL, a. Clouded with mist. NWAD MISTFUL.1

MISTHINK, v.i. [See Think.] To think wrong. [Little used.] NWAD MISTHINK.1

MISTHOUGHT, pp. of misthink. Thought wrong of. NWAD MISTHOUGHT.1

Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear. NWAD MISTHOUGHT.2

MISTIME, v.t. To time wrong; not to adapt to the time. NWAD MISTIME.1

MISTIME, v.i. To neglect the proper time. NWAD MISTIME.2

MISTIMED, pp. Ill timed; done at a wrong time. NWAD MISTIMED.1

MISTIMING, ppr. Ill timing; doing unseasonably. NWAD MISTIMING.1

MISTINESS, n. [See Mist.] A state of being misty; a state of thick rain in very small drops. NWAD MISTINESS.1

MISTION, n. [L. mistus, mixtus. See Mix.] NWAD MISTION.1

1. A state of being mixed. NWAD MISTION.2

2. Mixture; a mingling. NWAD MISTION.3

MISTITLE, v.t. To call by a wrong title or name. NWAD MISTITLE.1

MISTITLED, pp. Wrongly named. NWAD MISTITLED.1

MISTLE, v.i. mis’l. [from mist.] NWAD MISTLE.1

To fall in very fine drops, as rain. [See Misle.] NWAD MISTLE.2

MISTLETOE, MISLETOE, n. 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. NWAD MISTLETOE.1

MISTLIKE, a. Resembling mist. NWAD MISTLIKE.1

MISTOLD, pp. Erroneously told. [See Tell.] NWAD MISTOLD.1

MISTOOK, pret. of mistake. NWAD MISTOOK.1

MISTRAIN, v.t. To train or educate amiss. NWAD MISTRAIN.1

MISTRANSLATE, v.t. To translate erroneously. NWAD MISTRANSLATE.1

MISTRANSLATED, pp. Erroneously rendered into another language. NWAD MISTRANSLATED.1

MISTRANSLATING, ppr. Translating incorrectly. NWAD MISTRANSLATING.1

MISTRANSLATION, n. An erroneous translation or version. NWAD MISTRANSLATION.1

MISTRESS, n. [L. magistra.] NWAD MISTRESS.1

1. A woman who governs; correlative to servant, slave, or subject. NWAD MISTRESS.2

My mistress here lies murdered in her bed. NWAD MISTRESS.3

2. The female head of a family. NWAD MISTRESS.4

3. That which governs; a sovereign. Rome was mistress of the world. NWAD MISTRESS.5

4. One that commands, or has possession and sovereignty. The queen is mistress of the Indies. NWAD MISTRESS.6

5. A female who is well skilled in any thing; as, she is mistress of arithmetic. NWAD MISTRESS.7

6. A woman teacher; an instructress of a school. NWAD MISTRESS.8

7. A woman beloved and courted. NWAD MISTRESS.9

8. A woman in keeping for lewd purposes. NWAD MISTRESS.10

9. A term of contemptuous address. NWAD MISTRESS.11