A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.
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Native sodium sulphate; Glauber's salt.
Wonderful; admirable.
To make wonderful.
To cause to seem to be a miracle.
Same as Belvedere.
An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage.
See Nitrobenzene.
To stick in mire.
Working wonders; wonderful.
Wonderful.
The quality of being miry.
Darkness; gloom; murk.
Dark; gloomy; murky.
Dark; gloomy. See Murky.
A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound. It is also called a kazoo.
A genus comprising the elephant seals.
To reflect, as in a mirror.
Reflected in or as if in a mirror.
capable of reflecting light like a mirror; flat and reflective; as, the mirrorlike surface of the lake.
See Projector, below.
Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.
Without mirth.
Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.
A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.
The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.
Wrong; amiss.
Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
To account or reckon wrongly.
To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw out of adjustment.
Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
Mischance; misfortune; ill luck; unlucky accident; ill adventure.
Unfortunate.
Unfortunate.
Inadvertence.
Bad advice.
To give bad counsel to.
Ill advised.
To dislike.
Ill disposed.
An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected.
To affirm incorrectly.
Not rightly aimed.
Aligned improperly; not correctly aligned.
The act of aligning improperly or state of being improperly aligned.
A erroneous statement or allegation.
To state erroneously.
A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.
Wrongly allied or associated.
A wrong allotment.
To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse.
one who hates men. Contrast misogynist and cf. misandry.
Hatred of men. Contrast misogyny and cf. misandrist.
A hater of mankind; a misanthropist.
Hating or disliking mankind.
A misanthrope.
A misanthrope.
Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.
A wrong application.
To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.
Improperly appreciated.
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.
A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
By, or with, misapprehension.
To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
taken for one's own use in violation of a trust.
Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
To ascribe wrongly.
To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.
Wrong arrangement.
To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully.
To assign wrongly.
To misunderstand; to disregard.
Misadventure.
To misadvise.
To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave.
Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to.
Unbecoming.
To wrong; to do injury to.
Not befitting.
Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad or disreputable origin; pernicious.
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude.
Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.
Erroneous or false belief.
To believe erroneously, or in a false religion.
One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.
To suit ill.
To bestow improperly.
The act of misbestowing.
Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion.
imp. of Misbede.
p. p. of Misbede.
Born to misfortune.
To calculate erroneously.
a mistake in calculating.
To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a proper or desired result or reach a destination; as, a serious miscarriage of justice.
Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail.
An erroneous cast or reckoning.
to marry or cohabit with a person of another race.
A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.
Of or pertaining to miscellanies. A writer of miscellanies.
A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin.
A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.
Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.
A writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian.
Miscellaneous; heterogeneous.
To misjudge. Erroneous judgment.
To happen by mischance.
Unlucky.
To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.
To charge erroneously, as in an account. A mistake in charging.
To do harm to.
One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.
Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. The act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.
Mischievous.
Mischievous.
Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.
See Mishna.
See Mishnic.
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