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Miscast

An erroneous cast or reckoning.

miscegenate

to marry or cohabit with a person of another race.

Miscegenation

A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

Miscellanarian

Of or pertaining to miscellanies. A writer of miscellanies.

Miscellane

A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin.

Miscellanea

A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.

Miscellaneous

Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.

Mischaracterize

To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.

Mischarge

To charge erroneously, as in an account. A mistake in charging.

Mischief-maker

One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.

Mischief-making

Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. The act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.

Mischievous

Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.

Miscible

Capable of being mixed; mixable.

Misconceive

To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misunderstand; to misjudge; to misapprehend.

Misconception

Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.

Misconstruct

To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.

Misconstrue

To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously.

Miscorrect

To fail or err in attempting to correct.

Miscreated

Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.

Miscredent

A miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine.

Miscue

A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.

Misdate

To put a false or erroneous date on (a document).

misdating

The assignment of a date to something at a time when it could not have existed or occurred.

Misdeal

The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.

Misdeed

An evil deed; a wicked action.

Misdemean

To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.

Misderive

To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect.

Misdight

Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably.

Misdirect

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

Misdirection

The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.

Misdo

To do wrong; to commit a fault.

Misdoing

A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.

Misease

Want of ease; discomfort; misery.

Miseased

Having discomfort or misery; troubled.

Misemploy

To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc.

Misenter

To enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account.

Misentry

An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.

Miserably

In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly.

Miserly

Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid; niggardly.

Misfall

To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily.

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