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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.

Missish

Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental.

Mississippian

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.

Missit

To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.

Missive

That which is sent; a writing containing a message.

Missound

To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly.

Misspend

To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to squander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.

Misstate

To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.

Misstayed

Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.

Misstep

To take a wrong step; to go astray.

Missy

An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. Like a miss, or girl.

mist

Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

Mist

To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

Mistakable

Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.

Mistake

An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.

Mistaken

Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.

Mistaught

Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth.

Misteach

To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.

Mistemper

To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head.

Mister

To be needful or of use.

Misterm

To call by a wrong name; to miscall.

Mistful

Clouded with, or as with, mist.

Misthink

To have erroneous thoughts or judgment of; to think ill of.

Misthought

Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error.

Misthrive

To thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous.

Mistico Mistic

A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean. It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.

Mistide

To happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune.

Mistigri Mistigris

A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.

Mistily

With mist; darkly; obscurely.

Mistime

To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.

mistiming

The act or process of assigning something to a time when it could not have existed or occurred.

Mistle

To fall in very fine drops, as rain; to drizzle.

Mistletoe

A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit.

Mistral

A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

Mistransport

To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion.

Mistress

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

Mistrial

A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result; a trial which comes to no conclusion, such as a criminal trial which does not produce a unanimous verdict of the jurors.

Mistrust

To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.

Mistrustful

Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

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