Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 55

Misfortune (v. i.) To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.

Misfortuned (a.) Unfortunate.

Misframe (v. t.) To frame wrongly.

Misget (v. t.) To get wrongfully.

Misgie (v. t.) See Misgye.

Misgave (imp.) of Misgive

Misgiven (p. p.) of Misgive

Misgiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misgive

Misgive (v. t.) To give or grant amiss.

Misgive (v. t.) Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.

Misgive (v. t.) To suspect; to dread.

Misgive (v. i.) To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute.

Misgiving (n.) Evil premonition; doubt; distrust.

Migo (v. i.) To go astray.

Misgotten (a.) Unjustly gotten.

Misgovern (v. t.) To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country.

Misgovernance (n.) Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior.

Misgoverned (a.) Ill governed, as a people; ill directed.

Misgovernment (n.) Bad government; want of government.

Misgracious (a.) Not gracious.

Misgraff (v. t.) To misgraft.

Misgraft (v. t.) To graft wrongly.

Misground (v. t.) To found erroneously.

Misgrowth (n.) Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.

Misguess (v. t. & i.) To guess wrongly.

Misguidance (n.) Wrong guidance.

Misguide (v. t.) To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.

Misguide (n.) Misguidance; error.

Misguiding (a.) Misleading.

Misgye (v. t.) To misguide.

Mishandle (v. t.) To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.

Mishap (n.) Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.

Mishap (v. i.) To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally.

Mishappen (v. i.) To happen ill or unluckily.

Mishappy (a.) Unhappy.

Mishcup (n.) The scup.

Mishear (v. t. & i.) To hear incorrectly.

Mishmash (n.) A hotchpotch.

Mishna (n.) A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud.

Mishnic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mishna.

Misimagination (n.) Wrong imagination; delusion.

Misimprove (v. t.) To use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc.

Misimprovement (n.) Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.

Misincline (v. t.) To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.

Misinfer (v. t.) To infer incorrectly.

Misinform (v. t.) To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.

Misinform (v. i.) To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate.

Misinformant (n.) A misinformer.

Misinformation (n.) Untrue or incorrect information.

Misinformer (n.) One who gives or incorrect information.

Misinstruct (v. t.) To instruct amiss.

Misinstruction (n.) Wrong or improper instruction.

Misintelligence (n.) Wrong information; misinformation.

Misintelligence (n.) Disagreement; misunderstanding.

Misintend (v. t.) To aim amiss.

Misinterpret (v. t.) To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

Misinterpretable (a.) Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

Misinterpretation (n.) The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

Misinterpreter (n.) One who interprets erroneously.

Misjoin (v. t.) To join unfitly or improperly.

Misjoinder (n.) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.

Misjudge (v. t. & i.) To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

Misjudgment (n.) A wrong or unjust judgment.

Miskeep (v. t.) To keep wrongly.

Misken (v. t.) Not to know.

Miskin (n.) A little bagpipe.

Miskindle (v. t.) To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.

Misknow (v. t.) To have a mistaken notion of or about.

Mislactation (n.) Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.

Mislaid (imp. & p. p.) of Mislay

Mislaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mislay

Mislay (v. t.) To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source.

Mislay (v. t.) To lay in a place not recollected; to lose.

Mislayer (n.) One who mislays.

Misled (imp. & p. p.) of Misle

Misling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misle

Misle (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.

Misle (n.) A fine rain; a thick mist; mizzle.

Misled (imp. & p. p.) of Mislead

Misleading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mislead

Mislead (v. t.) To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

Misleader (n.) One who leads into error.

Misleading (a.) Leading astray; delusive.

Mislearn (v. t.) To learn wrongly.

Misled () imp. & p. p. of Mislead.

Milen (n.) See Maslin.

Misletoe (n.) See Mistletoe.

Mislight (v. t.) To deceive or lead astray with a false light.

Misliked (imp. & p. p.) of Mislike

Misliking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mislike

Mislike (v.) To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man.

Mislike (n.) Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.

Misliker (n.) One who dislikes.

Misliking (n.) Dislike; aversion.

Mislin (n. & a.) See Maslin.

Mislive (v. i.) To live amiss.

Mislodge (v. t.) To lodge amiss.

Misluck (n.) Ill luck; misfortune.

Misly (a.) Raining in very small drops.

Mistake (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

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