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.

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.

The sun god of the ancient Persians; the god of light and truth.

An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; -- so called from King Mithridates, its reputed inventor.

Of or pertaining to King Mithridates, or to a mithridate.

Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.

Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lenitive.

To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.

made less severe or intense.

serving to reduce blame; -- of situations; as, mitigating factors; mitigating circumstances. Opposite of aggravating.

The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.

Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

One who, or that which, mitigates.

Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

A little one; -- used as a term of endearment.

The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.

See Karyokinesis.

Of or pertaining to mitosis; karyokinetic; as, mitotic cell division; -- opposed to amitotic.

Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

One who serves a mitrailleuse.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.

See Miter.

To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.

Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter.

Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra.

A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers, usually worn by women.

A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.

Covered with a mitten or mittens.

Sending forth; emitting.

A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison. A writ for removing records from one court to another.

The stormy petrel.