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.

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.

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.

A South American curassow of the genus Mitua.

Having, or abounding with, mites.

To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.

To confuse the identities of (two or more objects); to mistake (one object for another); as, at the family gathering he mixed up his two nieces, to their great amusement.

a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.

Capable of being mixed.

Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. i.

In a mixed or mingled manner.

A compost heap; a dunghill.

One who, or that which, mixes.

Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.

Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.

Mixture.

With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly.

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.

mizzenmast.

A maze or labyrinth.

The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.

the third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy.

Mist; fine rain.

A bog or quagmire.

milliliter; -- the IS standard abbreviation.

millimeter; -- the IS standard abbreviation.

millimolar; -- the IS standard abbreviation.

The chemical symbol for manganese.

Something used to assist the memory, as an easily remembered acronym or verse.

Assisting in memory; helping to remember; as, a mnemonic device.

One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.

The art of memory; a method for improving the memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.

The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.

same as mnemonic.

Mnemonics.

A natural family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses andgonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae.

A genus of mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.

More; -- usually, more in number.

Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.

One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

A female Moabite.

Moabite.

A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.

Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.

To surround with a moat.

To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute.

To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.

A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself.

a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.

Mobilization.

Mobilize.

The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.

The act of mobilizing.

To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action; as, to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign.

A mathematical object, or a physical representation of it, which is a two-dimensional sheet with only one surface. It is constructed or visualized as a rectangle, one end of which is held fixed while the opposite end is twisted through a 180 degree angle and joined to the fixed end. It is a two-dimensional object that can only exist in a three-dimensional space.

To wrap the head of in a hood.

See Moebles.

A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.