Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 57

Misrule (n.) The act, or the result, of misruling.

Misrule (n.) Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.

Misruly (a.) Unruly.

Misses (pl. ) of Miss

Miss (n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

Miss (n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.

Miss (n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.

Miss (n.) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

Missed (imp. & p. p.) of Miss

Missing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Miss

Miss (v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.

Miss (v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.

Miss (v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.

Miss (v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.

Miss (v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.

Miss (v. i.) To go wrong; to err.

Miss (v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Miss (n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.

Miss (n.) Loss; want; felt absence.

Miss (n.) Mistake; error; fault.

Miss (n.) Harm from mistake.

Missae (pl. ) of Missa

Missa (n.) The service or sacrifice of the Mass.

Missal (n.) The book containing the service of the Mass for the entire year; a Mass book.

Missal (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book.

Missay (v. t.) To say wrongly.

Missay (v. t.) To speak evil of; to slander.

Missay (v. i.) To speak ill.

Misseek (v. t.) To seek for wrongly.

Misseem (v. i.) To make a false appearance.

Misseem (v. i.) To misbecome; to be misbecoming.

Missel (n.) Mistletoe.

Misseldine (n.) The mistletoe.

Misseltoe (n.) See Mistletoe.

Missemblance (n.) False resemblance or semblance.

Missend (v. t.) To send amiss or incorrectly.

Misserve (v. t. & i.) To serve unfaithfully.

Misset (v. t.) To set pr place wrongly.

Misshape (v. t.) To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.

Misshapen (a.) Having a bad or ugly form.

Missheathed (a.) Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.

Missificate (v. i.) To perform Mass.

Missile (a.) Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.

Missile (n.) A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.

Missing (v. i.) Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.

Missingly (adv.) With a sense of loss.

Mission (n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.

Mission (n.) That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.

Mission (n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.

Mission (n.) An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.

Mission (n.) An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.

Mission (n.) A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.

Mission (n.) Dismission; discharge from service.

Mission (v. t.) To send on a mission.

Missionaries (pl. ) of Missionary

Missionary (n) One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.

Missionary (a.) Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

Missioner (n.) A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6.

Missis (n.) A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.

Missish (a.) Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental.

Missit (v. t.) To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.

Missive (n.) Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive.

Missive (n.) Missile.

Missive (n.) That which is sent; a writing containing a message.

Missive (n.) One who is sent; a messenger.

Missound (v. t.) To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly.

Misspeak (v. i.) To err in speaking.

Misspeak (v. t.) To utter wrongly.

Misspeech (n.) Wrong speech.

Misspelled (imp. & p. p.) of Misspell

Misspelt () of Misspell

Misspelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misspell

Misspell (v. t.) To spell incorrectly.

Misspelling (n.) A wrong spelling.

Misspent (imp. & p. p.) of Misspend

Misspending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misspend

Misspend (v. t.) To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.

Misspender (n.) One who misspends.

misspense (n.) A spending improperly; a wasting.

Misspent () imp. & p. p. of Misspend.

Misstate (v. t.) To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.

Misstatement (n.) An incorrect statement.

Misstayed (a.) Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.

Misstep (n.) A wrong step; an error of conduct.

Misstep (v. i.) To take a wrong step; to go astray.

Missuccess (n.) Failure.

Missuggestion (n.) Wrong or evil suggestion.

Missummation (n.) Wrong summation.

Misswear (v. i.) To swear falsely.

Missy (n.) See Misy.

Missy (n.) An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss.

Missy (a.) Like a miss, or girl.

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

Mist (n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.

Mist (n.) Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.

Misted (imp. & p. p.) of Mist

Misting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mist

Mist (v. t.) To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.

Mist (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

Mistakable (a.) Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.

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