Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 59

Misuse (n.) Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.

Misuse (n.) Violence, or its effects.

Misusement (n.) Misuse.

Misuser (n.) One who misuses.

Misuser (n.) Unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right.

Misvalue (v. t.) To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue.

Misvouch (v. t.) To vouch falsely.

Miswander (v. i.) To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.

Misway (n.) A wrong way.

Miswear (v. t.) To wear ill.

Miswed (v. t.) To wed improperly.

Misween (v. i.) To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken.

Miswend (v. i.) To go wrong; to go astray.

Misword (v. t.) To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

Misword (n.) A word wrongly spoken; a cross word.

Misworship (n.) Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion.

Misworship (v. t.) To worship wrongly.

Misworshiper (n.) One who worships wrongly.

Miswrite (v. t.) To write incorrectly.

Miswrought (a.) Badly wrought.

Misy (n.) An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.

Misyoke (v. t.) To yoke improperly.

Miszealous (a.) Mistakenly zealous.

Mite (n.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.

Mite (n.) A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

Mite (n.) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

Mite (n.) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.

Miter (n.) Alt. of Mitre

Mitre (n.) A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.

Mitre (n.) The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.

Mitre (n.) A sort of base money or coin.

Mitered (imp. & p. p.) of Mitre

Mitred () of Mitre

Mitering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mitre

Mitring () of Mitre

Miter (v. t.) Alt. of Mitre

Mitre (v. t.) To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.

Mitre (v. t.) To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.

Miter (v. i.) Alt. of Mitre

Mitre (v. i.) To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.

Miterwort (n.) Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap.

Mithic (a.) See Mythic.

Mithras (n.) The sun god of the Persians.

Mithridate (n.) 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.

Mithridatic (a.) Of or pertaining to King Mithridates, or to a mithridate.

Mitigable (a.) Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.

Mitigant (a.) Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lentitive.

Mitigated (imp. & p. p.) of Mitigate

Mitigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mitigate

Mitigate (v. t.) 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.

Mitigate (v. t.) To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.

Mitigation (n.) 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.

Mitigative (a.) Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

Mitigator (n.) One who, or that which, mitigates.

Mitigatory (a.) Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

Miting (n.) A little one; -- used as a term of endearment.

Mitome (n.) The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.

Mitosis (n.) See Karyokinesis.

Mitraille (n.) Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

Mitrailleur (n.) One who serves a mitrailleuse.

Mitrailleuse (n.) 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.

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

Mitre (n. & v.) See Miter.

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

Mitt (n.) A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

Mitten (n.) 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.

Mitten (n.) A cover for the wrist and forearm.

Mittened (a.) Covered with a mitten or mittens.

Mittent (a.) Sending forth; emitting.

Mittimus (n.) A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.

Mittimus (n.) A writ for removing records from one court to another.

Mitter's green () A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.

Mitty (n.) The stormy petrel.

Mitu (n.) A South American curassow of the genus Mitua.

Mity (a.) Having, or abounding with, mites.

Mixed (imp. & p. p.) of Mix

Mixt () of Mix

Mixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mix

Mix (v. t.) To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.

Mix (v. t.) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

Mix (v. t.) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.

Mix (v. i.) To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.

Mix (v. i.) To associate; to mingle.

Mixable (a.) Capable of being mixed.

Mixed (a.) Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. & i.

Mixedly (adv.) In a mixed or mingled manner.

Mixen (n.) A compost heap; a dunghill.

Mixer (n.) One who, or that which, mixes.

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

Mixolydian mode () The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G.

Mixtilineal (a.) Alt. of Mixtilinear

Mixtilinear (a.) 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.

Mixtion (n.) Mixture.

Mixtion (n.) A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

Mixtly (adv.) With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly.

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

Mixture (n.) That which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley.

Mixture (n.) An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient.

Mixture (n.) A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.

Mixture (n.) A mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.

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