To dissatisfy.
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See Misspell, Misspend, etc.
See Misspense.
Erroneous perception.
To persuade amiss.
A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion.
Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.
To err in pleading.
An error in pleading.
To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
Wrong policy; impolicy.
Wrong practice.
To praise amiss.
To print wrongly; to make a mistake in printing.
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.
To mistake.
To slight or undervalue.
Wrong or irregular proceding.
To make a false profession of.
To pronounce incorrectly.
Wrong or improper pronunciation.
To give wrong or unesthetic proportions to; to join without due proportion; as, the legs were misrpoportioned to the body.
An improper or unesthetic proportion.
Viciously proud.
To punctuate wrongly or incorrectly.
Erroneous or inaccurate quotation.
To quote erroneously or incorrectly.
To raise or excite unreasonable.
To rate erroneously.
To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.
To receive wrongly.
An inaccurate recital.
To recite erroneously.
To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate.
An erroneous computation.
To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects.
Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
To reform wrongly or imperfectly.
Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.
To rehearse or quote incorrectly.
To relate inaccurately.
Erroneous relation or narration.
False religion.
To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.
To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given.
To make an incorrect or untrue representation.
Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.
Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
One who misrepresents.
To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.
The act, or the result, of misruling.
Unruly.
The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
The service or sacrifice of the Mass.
Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book.
To speak ill.
To seek for wrongly.
To make a false appearance.
Mistletoe.
The mistletoe.
See Mistletoe.
False resemblance or semblance.
To send amiss or incorrectly.
To serve unfaithfully.
To set or place wrongly.
To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.
Having a bad or ugly form.
Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.
To perform Mass.
A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
With a sense of loss.
To send on a mission.
Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.
A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6.
A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.
Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental.
A geological period extending from from 310 million to 345 million years ago; it was associated with an increase of land areas, the presence of primitive ammonites, and emergence of winged insects; called also Missippian period and Lower Carboniferous period.
To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.
That which is sent; a writing containing a message.
To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly.
A resident of Missouri.
To utter wrongly.
Wrong speech.
To spell incorrectly.
A wrong spelling.
To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to squander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.
One who misspends.
A spending improperly; a wasting.
imp. p. p. of Misspend.
To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.
An incorrect statement.
Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
To take a wrong step; to go astray.
Failure.
Wrong or evil suggestion.
Wrong summation.
To swear falsely.
An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. Like a miss, or girl.
Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.
Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.
An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.
By mistake.
Erroneousness.
One who mistakes.
An error; a mistake.
Erroneously.
Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth.
To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.
To tell erroneously.
To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head.
To be needful or of use.
To call by a wrong name; to miscall.
See Mystery, a trade.
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