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Misly

Raining in very small drops; drizzling.

Mismake

To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

Mismanage

To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.

Mismanagement

Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.

mismatched

Matched unsuitably; grouped into pairs or sets with incompatible characteristics.

Mismate

To mate wrongly or unsuitably; to mismatch; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.

Mismeter

To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.

Misname

To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.

Misnurture

To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children.

Misobserve

To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.

Misobserver

One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.

Misogynous

Hating women; having deep-seated distrust of women; -- used of men.

Misogyny

Hatred of women. Contrast misandry.

Misology

Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment.

Mispickel

Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.

Misplace

To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.

Misplacement

The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.

Mispoint

To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.

Misprint

To print wrongly; to make a mistake in printing.

misprint

A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints. Misprints are sometimes noted and corrected in a list of corrigenda distributed with a book.

Misproportion

To give wrong or unesthetic proportions to; to join without due proportion; as, the legs were misrpoportioned to the body.

Misquote

To quote erroneously or incorrectly.

Misraise

To raise or excite unreasonable.

Misread

To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.

Misrecollect

To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects.

Misregard

Wrong understanding; misconstruction.

Misregulate

To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.

Misremember

To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.

Misrender

To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.

Misrepeat

To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.

Misreport

An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given.

Misrepresentation

Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.

Misrepute

To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.

Misrule

The act, or the result, of misruling.

Miss

The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.

Missa

The service or sacrifice of the Mass.

Missal

Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book.

Missend

To send amiss or incorrectly.

Misset

To set or place wrongly.

Misshape

To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.

Missheathed

Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.

Missile

A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.

Missing

Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for.

Missionary

Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

Missioner

A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6.

Missis

A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.

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