To send on a mission.
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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.
Clouded with, or as with, mist.
To have erroneous thoughts or judgment of; to think ill of.
Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error.
To thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous.
To throw wrongly.
A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean. It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.
To happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune.
A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.
Mistiness.
With mist; darkly; obscurely.
To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.
The act or process of assigning something to a time when it could not have existed or occurred.
State of being misty.
Mixture.
To call by a wrong title.
To fall in very fine drops, as rain; to drizzle.
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.
The American badger.
imp. obs. p. p. of Mistake.
A wrong tradition.
To train amiss.
A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.
To translate erroneously.
Wrong translation.
To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion.
Misstep; misbehavior.
To treat amiss; to abuse.
physically abused.
Wrong treatment.
To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
Female rule or dominion.
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.
To mistrust.
To think wrongly.
To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.
One who mistrusts.
Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
With distrust or suspicion.
Having no mistrust or suspicion.
To tune wrongly.
A mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture, n., 4. Sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops.
To turn amiss; to pervert.
To instruct amiss.
Accompanied with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, a misty morning; misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.
To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
One who misunderstands.
Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception.
Measured; -- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.
Bad treatment; abuse.
Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.
Misuse.
One who misuses.
To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue.
To vouch falsely.
To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
A wrong way.
To wear ill.
To wed improperly.
To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken.
To go wrong; to go astray.
A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.
To worship wrongly.
One who worships wrongly.
To write incorrectly.
Badly wrought.
An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.
To yoke improperly.
Mistakenly zealous.
A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the dust mite, cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, three-toed spider mite, etc. See Acarina.
A genus of low slender herbs of North America and Northeast Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.
Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap.
The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.
See Mythic.
Mithraism.
The ancient Persian religion which worshiped Mithra; it was popular among Romans during first three centuries a. d.
An adherent of Mithraism.
Of or pertaining to Mithraism.
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