Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 55
Misfortune (v. i.) To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail. [Obs.] -- Stow.
Misfortune (n.) Unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event [syn: {misfortune}, {bad luck}].
Misfortune (n.) An unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes [syn: {misfortune}, {bad luck}, {tough luck}, {ill luck}] [ant: {good fortune}, {good luck}, {luckiness}].
Misfortune (n.) The kind of fortune that never misses.
Misfortuned (a.) Unfortunate. [Obs.]
Misframe (v. t.) To frame wrongly.
Misfunction (n.) 不正常工作 Failure to function correctly; an instance of this, a dysfunction.
Misfunction (v.) 發生故障；不起作用 Fail to function or function improperly; "the coffee maker malfunctioned" [syn: {malfunction}, {misfunction}] [ant: {function}, {go}, {operate}, {run}, {work}].
Misget (v. t.) To get wrongfully. [Obs.]
Misgie (v. t.) See Misgye. [Obs.]
Misgave (imp.) of Misgive.
Misgiven (p. p.) of Misgive.
Misgiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misgive.
Misgive (v. t.) To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] -- Laud.
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.
So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours. -- Shak.
Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved. -- Milton.
Misgive (v. t.) To suspect; to dread. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Misgive (v. i.) To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute. "My mind misgives." -- Shak.
Misgive (v.) Suggest fear or doubt; "Her heart misgave her that she had acted inexcusably."
Misgiving (n.) Evil premonition; doubt; distrust ; a feeling of apprehension; -- used commonly in the plural. "Suspicious and misgivings." -- South.
Misgiving (n.) Uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: scruple, qualm, misgiving].
Misgiving (n.) Painful expectation [syn: apprehension, misgiving].
Misgiving (n.) Doubt about someone's honesty [syn: misgiving, mistrust, distrust, suspicion].
Misgo (v. i.) To go astray. -- Spenser.
Misgotten (a.) Unjustly gotten. -- Spenser.
Misgovern (v. t.) To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. -- Knolles.
Misgovern (v.) Govern badly.
Misgovernance (n.) Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Spenser.
Misgoverned (a.) Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." -- Shak.
Misgovernment (n.) 惡政 Bad government; want of government. -- Shak.
Misgovernment (n.) Government that is inefficient or dishonest [syn: {misgovernment}, {misrule}].
Misgracious (a.) Not gracious. [Obs.]
Misgraff (v. t.) To misgraft. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Misgraft (v. t.) To graft wrongly.
Misground (v. t.) To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." -- Bp. Hall.
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. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Misguide (v.) Lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver" [syn: mislead, misdirect, misguide, lead astray].
Misguide (v.) Give bad advice to [syn: misadvise, misguide].
Misguiding (a.) Misleading. -- Mis*guid"ing*ly, adv.
Misgye (v. t.) To misguide. [Obs.]
Mishandle (v. t.) To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
Mishandle (v.) Make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up].
Mishandle (v.) Manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged" [syn: mismanage, mishandle, misconduct].
MISHAP (n.) An early system on the IBM 1130. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. (2004-09-14)
Mishap (n.) 不幸事故；災難 [C] [U]；【罕】【古】不幸，晦氣 Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. -- Chaucer.
Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. -- Shak.
Mishap (v. i.) To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] "If that me mishap." -- Chaucer.
Mishap (n.) An 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}].
Mishap (n.) An instance of misfortune [syn: {mishap}, {misadventure}, {mischance}].
Mishap (n.) [C or U] (C2) 厄運；不幸事故 Bad luck, or an unlucky event or accident.
// The parade was very well organized passed without mishap. A series of mishaps led to the nuclear power plant blowing up.
Mishappen (v. i.) To happen ill or unluckily. -- Spenser.
Mishappy (a.) Unhappy. [Obs.]
Mishcup (n.) (Zool.) The scup. [Local, U. S.]
Mishear (v. t. & i.) To hear incorrectly.
Mishmash (n.) A hodgepodge or hotchpotch; a confused jumble. [Also spelled mishmosh.] -- Sir T. Herbert.
Mishmash (n.) A motley assortment of things [syn: odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum].
Mishna (n.) A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud. [Written also Mischna.]
Mishnic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mishna.
Misimagination (n.) Wrong imagination; delusion. -- Bp. Hall.
Misimprove (v. t.) To use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc. -- South.
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. [R.] -- Bp. Montagu.
Misinform (v.) Give false or misleading information to [syn: misinform, mislead].
Misinformant (n.) A misinformer.
Misinformation (n.) 誤報；錯誤的消息 Untrue or incorrect information. -- Bacon.
Misinformation (n.) Information that is incorrect.
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. [Obs.]
Misintend (v. t.) To aim amiss. [Obs.]
Misinterpret (v. t.) 曲解 To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
Misinterpret (v.) Interpret falsely.
Misinterpret (v.) Interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!" [syn: {misread}, {misinterpret}].
Misinterpret (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}].
Misinterpretable (a.) Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
Misinterpretation (n.) The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
Misinterpretation (n.) Putting the wrong interpretation on; "his misinterpretation of the question caused his error"; "there was no mistaking her meaning" [syn: misinterpretation, misunderstanding, mistaking].
Misinterpreter (n.) One who interprets erroneously.
Misjoin (v. t.) To join unfitly or improperly.
Misjoinder (n.) (Law) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil. -- Wharton.
Misjoinder, () pleading. Misjoinder of causes of action, or counts, consists in joining, in different counts in one declaration, several demands, which the law does not permit to be joined, to enforce several distinct, substantive rights of recovery; as, where a declaration joins a count in trespass with another in case, for distinct wrongs or a count in tort, with another in contract. Gould. 6n PI. c. 4, Sec. 98; Archb. Civ. PI. 61, 78 176; Serg. and Rawle, 358; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.
Misjoinder, () Misjoinder of parties, consists in joining as plaintiffs or defendants, persons, who have not a joint interest. When the misjoinder relates to the plaintiffs, the defendants may, at common law, plead the matter in abatement, whether the action be real; 12 H. IV., 15; personal; Johns. Ch. R. 350, 438; 12 John. R. 1; 2 Mass. R. 293; or mixed; or it will be good cause of nonsuit at the trial. 3 Bos. & Pull. 235. Where the objection appears upon the face of the declaration, the defendant may demur generally; 2 Saund. 145; or move in arrest of judgment; or bring a writ of error.
Misjoinder, () When in actions ex contractu against several, there is a misjoinder of the defendants, as if there be too many persons made defendants, and the objection appears on the pleadings, either of the defendants may demur, move in arrest of judgment, or support a writ of error; and, if the objection do not appear on the pleadings, the plaintiff may be nonsuited upon the trial, if he fail in proving a joint contract. 5 Johns. R. 280; 2 Johns. R. 213; 11 Johns. R. 101; 5 Mass. R. 270.
Misjoinder, () In actions ex delicto, the misjoinder cannot in general be objected to, because in actions for torts, one defendant may be found guilty and the others acquitted. Archb. Civ. Pl. 79. As to the cases in which a misjoinder may be aided by a nolle prosequi, see 2 Archb. Pr. 218-220.
Misjudge (v. t. & i.) 判斷錯 To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
Misjudge (v.) [ T ] 錯誤地判斷；對…判斷不公；錯看 To form an opinion or idea about someone or something that is unfair or wrong.
// I thought he wasn't going to support me, but I misjudged him.
// Sophie totally misjudged the situation and behaved inappropriately.
Misjudge (v.) [ T ] 對（數量或距離）估計錯誤 To guess an amount or distance wrongly.
Misjudgment (n.) A wrong or unjust judgment.
Miskeep (v. t.) To keep wrongly. -- Chaucer.
Misken (v. t.) Not to know. [Obs.]
Miskin (n.) (Mus.) A little bagpipe. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
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. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Mislactation (n.) (Med.) 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.
The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. -- Locke.
Mislay (v. t.) To lay in a place not recollected; to misplace; to lose.
The
. . . charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of
their petition was to obtain one of like import in its stead. -- Hallam.
Mislay (v.) Place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses" [syn: misplace, mislay, 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 ; to drizzle. [archaic]
Misle (n.) A fine rain; a thick mist; a mizzle; a drizzle.
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.
Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. -- Bacon.
To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. -- Milton.
Syn: To delude; deceive. See Deceive.
Mislead (v.) Lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver" [syn: mislead, misdirect, misguide, lead astray].
Mislead (v.) Give false or misleading information to [syn: misinform, mislead].
Misleader (n.) One who leads into error.
Misleader (n.) Someone who leads astray (often deliberately).
Misleading (a.) 使人誤解的；騙人的；迷惑人的；引入歧途的 Leading astray; delusive.
Misleading (a.) Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: deceptive, misleading, shoddy].
Mislearn (v. t.) To learn wrongly.
Misled () imp. & p. p. of Mislead.
Mislen (n.) See Maslin.
Misletoe (n.) See Mistletoe.
Mistletoe (n.) (Bot.) A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe ({Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [Written also misletoe, misseltoe, and mistleto.] -- Lindley.-- Loudon.
Note: The mistletoe of the United States is Phoradendron serotinum (syn. Phoradendron flavescens), having broader leaves than the European kind. In different regions various similar plants are called by this name. The mistletoe is used as a decoration at Christmas time, and it is a tradition that two persons of the oposite sex finding each other under a mistletoe sprig should kiss.
Mislight (v. t.) To deceive or lead astray with a false light. -- Herrick.
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.
Who may like or mislike what he says. -- I. Taylor.
Mislike (n.) Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.
Misliker (n.) One who dislikes.
Misliking (n.) Dislike; aversion.
Compare: Maslin
Maslin (a.) Composed of different sorts; as, maslin bread, which is made of rye mixed with a little wheat. [Written also meslin, mislin, etc.]
Maslin (n.) A mixture composed of different materials; especially:
Maslin (n.) (a) A mixture of metals resembling brass.
Maslin (n.) (b) A mixture of different sorts of grain, as wheat and rye. [Written also meslin, mislin, maselyn, mastlin.]
Maslin (n.) A vessel made of maslin, 1 (a) . [Obs.]
Mead eke in a maselyn. -- Chaucer.
Mislin (n. & a.) See Maslin.
Mislive (v. i.) To live amiss.
Mislodge (v. t.) To lodge amiss. [Obs.]
Misluck (n.) Ill luck; misfortune.
Misly (a.) Raining in very small drops; drizzling. [archaic]
Mississippi (n.) 美國密西西比州；密西西比河 A major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico [syn: Mississippi, Mississippi River].
Mississippi (n.) A state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War [syn: Mississippi, Magnolia State, MS].
Mississippi -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 13427
Housing Units (2000): 5840
Land area (2000): 413.156578 sq. miles (1070.070578 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 15.749474 sq. miles (40.790949 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 428.906052 sq. miles (1110.861527 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.843567 N, 89.332848 W
Headwords:
Mississippi
Mississippi, MO
Mississippi County
Mississippi County, MO
Mississippi -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 51979
Housing Units (2000): 22310
Land area (2000): 898.248594 sq. miles (2326.453080 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 21.480804 sq. miles (55.635025 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 919.729398 sq. miles (2382.088105 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.806751 N, 90.030415 W
Headwords:
Mississippi
Mississippi, AR
Mississippi County
Mississippi County, AR
Mistake (v. t.) 弄錯，誤解；把……誤認為 [（+for）] To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.