Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 53

Miscellanarian  (n.) A writer of miscellanies.

Miscellanarian (in British English) (n.) (Obs.) A person who writes miscellanies.

Miscellane  (n.) A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin. -- Bacon.
Miscellanea  (n. pl.) 雜集 A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.

Miscellanea (n.) A collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" [syn: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley].

Miscellaneous  (a.) 混雜的，五花八門的；各種各樣的；多才多藝的 Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection. "A miscellaneous rabble." -- Milton. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ness, n.

Miscellaneous (a.) Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social" -- I.A.Richards [syn: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry(a)].

Miscellaneous (a.) Having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the multifarious noise of a great city"; "a miscellaneous crowd" [syn: many-sided, multifaceted, miscellaneous, multifarious].

Miscellanist  (n.) 雜集的編者 A writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian.

Miscellany  (a.) Miscellaneous; heterogeneous. [Obs.] -- Bacon.

Miscellanies (n. pl. ) of Miscellany.

Miscellany  (n.) 混合物；混雜；（常複數）文集 A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.

'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual. -- Hewyt.

Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries; a milliner. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.

Miscellany (n.) A collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" [syn: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley].

Miscellany (n.) An anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. [syn: florilegium, garland, miscellany].

Miscensure  (v. t.) To misjudge. [Obs.] -- Daniel.

Miscensure  (n.) Erroneous judgment. [Obs.] -- Sylvester.

Mischance  (n.) Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. -- Chaucer.

Never come mischance between us twain. -- Shak.

Syn: Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.

Mischance  (v. i.) To happen by mischance. -- Spenser.

Mischance (n.) AAn unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; "if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all" [syn: bad luck, mischance, mishap].

Mischance (n.) An instance of misfortune [syn: mishap, misadventure, mischance].

Mischanceful  (a.) Unlucky. -- R. Browning.

Mischaracterize  (v. t.) To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.

They totally mischaracterize the action. -- Eton.

Mischarge  (v. t.) To charge erroneously, as in account.

Mischarge  (n.) A mistake in charging.

Mischief  (n.) Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport. -- Chaucer.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs. -- Ps. lii. 2.

The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from many mischiefs. -- Fuller.

Mischief  (n.) Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble. -- Milton.

The mischief was, these allies would never allow that the common enemy was subdued. -- Swift.

To be in mischief, To be doing harm or causing annoyance.

To make mischief, To do mischief, especially by exciting quarrels.

To play the mischief, To cause great harm; to throw into confusion. [Colloq.]

Syn: Damage; harm; hurt; injury; detriment; evil; ill.

Usage: Mischief, Damage, Harm. Damage is an injury which diminishes the value of a thing; harm is an injury which causes trouble or inconvenience; mischief is an injury which disturbs the order and consistency of things. We often suffer damage or harm from accident, but mischief always springs from perversity or folly.

Mischief  (v. t.) To do harm to. [Obs.] -- Milton.

Mischief (n.) Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others [syn: mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan].

Mischief (n.) The quality or nature of being harmful or evil [syn: maleficence, mischief, balefulness] [ant: beneficence].

Mischiefable  (a.) Mischievous. [R.] -- Lydgate.

Mischiefful  (a.) Mischievous. [Obs.] -- Foote.

Mischief-maker  (n.) One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.

Mischief-maker (n.) Someone who deliberately stirs up trouble [syn: troublemaker, trouble maker, troubler, mischief-maker, bad hat].

Mischief-making  (a.) Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. -- Rowe.

Mischief-making  (n.) The act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.

Mischief-making (n.) Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others [syn: mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan].

Mischievous  (a.) Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." -- Shak.

This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. -- South.

Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious; destructive. -- Mis"chie*vous*ly, adv. -- Mis"chie*vous*ness, n.

Mischievous (a.) Naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked].

Mischievous (a.) Deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods."

Mischna  (n.) See Mishna.

Compare: Mishna

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

Mischnic  (a.) See Mishnic.

Mischose  (imp.) of Mischoose.

Mischosen  (p. p.) of Mischoose.

Mischoosing  (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mischoose.

Mischoose  (v. t.) 選錯 To choose wrongly. -- Milton.

Mischoose  (v. i.) 選擇錯誤 To make a wrong choice.

Mischristen  (v. t.) To christen wrongly.

Miscibility  (n.) 可溶混性 Capability of being mixed. -- Burke.

Miscible  (a.) (Chem.) 【化】可溶混的 Mixable in all proportions; forming a single phase when mixed in any proportion; -- of liquids; as, water and alcohol are miscible in all proportions; water and gasoline are not miscible; benzene and ethyl alcohol are miscible, and ethyl alcohol is miscible with water, but water is not miscible with benzene.

Miscible (a.) (Chemistry, physics) Capable of being mixed [syn: miscible, mixable] [ant: immiscible, non-miscible, unmixable].

Miscitation  (n.) Erroneous citation.

Miscite  (v. t.) To cite erroneously.

Misclaim (n.) A mistaken claim.

Miscognizant  (a.) (Law) Not cognizant; ignorant; not knowing.

Miscognize  (v. t.) To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand. [Obs.] -- Holland.

Miscollocation  (n.) Wrong collocation. -- De Quincey.

Miscolor  (v. t.) 對……作歪曲的敘述；錯用顏色 To give a wrong color to.

Miscolor  (v. t.) [figuratively], To set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts. -- C. Kingsley.

Miscomfort  (n.) Discomfort. [Obs.]

Miscomprehend  (v. t.) To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.

Miscomputation  (n.) Erroneous computation; false reckoning.

Miscompute  (v. t.) To compute erroneously. -- Sir T. Browne.

Misconceit  (n.) Misconception. [Obs.]

Misconceived  (imp. & p. p.) of Misconceive.

Misconceiving  (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misconceive.

Misconceive (v. t.) 誤解；(v. i.) 產生誤解 To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. -- Hooker.

Syn: To misapprehend; misunderstand; mistake.

Misconceive (v.) Interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks" [syn: misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, misunderstand, misapprehend, be amiss].

Misconceiver  (n.) One who misconceives.

Misconception  (n.) 誤解；錯誤想法 Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. -- Harvey.

Misconception (n.) An incorrect conception [ant: concept, conception, construct].

Misconception (n.) [ C ] 誤解，錯誤的想法 An idea that is wrong because it has been based on a failure to understand a situation

// We hope our work will help to change popular misconceptions about disabled people.

// [ + that ] I'd like to clear up the common misconception that older workers don't know how to use technology.

Misconclusion  (n.) An erroneous inference or conclusion. -- Bp. Hall.

Misconduct  (v. i.) To behave amiss.

Misconduct  (n.) Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. -- Addison.

Misconduct  (n.) Unlawful or unethical conduct by a person holding a public office or having a position of responsibility in the administration of justice; malfeasance; as, discussing the case out of court during a trial is misconduct by a juror; especially, misuse of office by an elected or appointed government official, also called misconduct in office.

Syn: Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.

Misconduct  (v. t.) To conduct amiss; to mismanage. -- Johnson.

To misconduct one's self, To behave improperly.

Misconduct (n.) Bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf.

Misconduct (n.) Activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing" [syn: wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus].

Misconduct (v.) Behave badly; "The children misbehaved all morning" [syn: misbehave, misconduct, misdemean] [ant: behave, comport].

Misconduct (v.) Manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged" [syn: mismanage, mishandle, misconduct].

Misconfident  (a.) Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.

Misconjecture  (n.) A wrong conjecture or guess. -- Sir T. Browne.

Misconjecture  (v. t. & i.) To conjecture wrongly.

Misconsecrate  (v. t.) To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." -- Bp. Hall.

Misconsecration  (n.) Wrong consecration.

Misconsequence  (n.) A wrong consequence; a false deduction.

Misconstruable  (a.) Such as can be misconstrued, as language or conduct. -- R. North.

Misconstruct  (v. t.) To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.

Misconstruction  (n.) Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.

Misconstruction (n.) A kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) [syn: misconstrual, misconstruction].

Misconstruction (n.) An ungrammatical constituent [ant: construction, expression, grammatical construction].

Misconstrued  (imp. & p. p.) of Misconstrue.

Misconstruing  (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misconstrue.

Misconstrue  (v. t.) To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously.

Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent. -- Dryden.

Much afflicted to find his actions misconstrued. -- Addison.

Misconstrue (v.) Interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks" [syn: misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, misunderstand, misapprehend, be amiss].

Misconstruer  (n.) One who misconstrues.

Miscontent  (a.) Discontent. [Obs.]

Miscontinuance  (n.) Discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process.

Miscontinuance  (n.) practice. By this term is understood a continuance of a suit by undue process. Its effect is the same as a discontinuance. (q.v.) 2 Hawk. 299; Kitch. 231; Jenk. Cent. 57.

Miscopy  (v. t.) To copy amiss.

Miscopy  (n.) A mistake in copying. -- North Am. Rev.

Miscorrect  (v. t.) To fail or err in attempting to correct. "Scaliger miscorrects his author." -- Dryden.

Miscounsel  (v. t.) To counsel or advise wrongly.

Miscount  (v. t. & i.) To count erroneously.

Miscount  (n.) An erroneous counting.

Miscount  (n.) Specifically: An erroneous count of ballots cast in an election.

Miscount (n.) An inaccurate count.

Miscount (v.) Count wrongly.

Miscovet  (v. t.) To covet wrongfully. [Obs.] Miscreance

Miscreance  (n.) Alt. of Miscreancy.

Miscreancy  (n.) The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith. [Obs.] -- Ayliffe.

Miscreant  (n.) One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. [Obs.] -- Spenser. De Quincey.

Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. -- Rivers.

Miscreant  (n.) One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch. -- Addison.

Miscreant  (a.) Holding a false religious faith.

Miscreant  (a.) Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous; villainous; base; depraved. -- Pope.

Miscreant (n.) A person without moral scruples [syn: reprobate, miscreant].

Miscreate  (a.) Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles. [Obs. or Poet.] -- Shak.

Miscreate  (v. t.) To create badly or amiss.

Miscreate (v.) Shape or form or make badly; "Our miscreated fantasies."

Miscreated  (a.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed. -- Spenser. Milton.

Miscreative  (a.) Creating amiss. [R.]

Miscredent  (n.) A miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.

Miscredulity  (n.) Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief. -- Bp. Hall.

Miscue  (n.) (Billiards) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.

Miscue  (n.) Hence: To make a mistake; especially to fail to execute a necessary or expected action at the proper time, such as making a play in sports, or saying one's line in a drama.

Miscue (n.) A faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball.

Miscue (n.) A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. [syn: slip, slip-up, miscue, parapraxis].

Misdated  (imp. & p. p.) of Misdate.

Misdating  (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misdate.

Misdate  (v. t.) To date erroneously.

Misdate (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Misdated; p. pr. & vb. n. Misdating.] To put a false or erroneous date on (a document). --Young.

Misdate (v. t.) To assign an incorrect date to; as, the fall of Troy was misdated by medieval writers.

Misdate (v.) Assign the wrong date to.

Misdealt  (imp. & p. p.) of Misdeal.

Misdealing  (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misdeal.

Misdeal  (v. t. & i.) To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution.

Misdeal  (n.) The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.

Misdeal (n.) An incorrect deal.

Misdeal (v.) Deal cards wrongly.

Misdeed  (n.) An evil deed; a wicked action.

Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. -- Milton.

Syn: Misconduct; misdemeanor; fault; offense; trespass; transgression; crime.

Misdeed (n.) Improper or wicked or immoral behavior [syn: misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed].

Misdeem  (v. t.) To misjudge. [Obs.] -- Milton.

Misdeem, () (Deut. 32:27, R.V.). The Authorized Version reads, "should behave themselves strangely;" i.e., not recognize the truth, misunderstand or mistake the cause of Israel's ruin, which was due to the fact that God had forsaken them on account of their apostasy.

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