Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 57
Misrule (n.) The act, or the result, of misruling.
Misrule (n.) Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
Enormous riot and misrule surveyed. -- Pope.
Abbot of Misrule, or Lord of Misrule. See under Abbot, and Lord.
Misrule (n.) Government that is inefficient or dishonest [syn: misgovernment, misrule].
Misruly (a.) Unruly. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Misses (n. 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.
Note: There is diversity of usage in the application of this title to two or more persons of the same name. We may write either the Miss Browns or the Misses Brown.
Miss (n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses. -- Cawthorn.
Miss (n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Miss (n.) (Card Playing) 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.
When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right. -- Locke.
Miss (v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay. -- Prior.
We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood. -- Shak.
Miss (v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want ; as, to miss an absent
loved one. -- Shak.
Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him. -- 1 Sam. xxv. 15, 21.
What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss. -- Milton.
To miss stays. (Naut.) See under Stay.
Miss (v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss. -- Bacon.
Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away. -- Waller.
Miss (v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them. -- Atterbury.
Miss (v. i.) To go wrong; to err. [Obs.]
Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss? -- Spenser.
Miss (v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting. [Obs.] See Missing, a.
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. -- Shak.
Miss (n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
Miss (n.) Loss; want; felt absence. [Obs.]
There will be no great miss of those which are lost. -- Locke.
Miss (n.) Mistake; error; fault. -- Shak.
He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. -- Ascham.
Miss (n.) Harm from mistake. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Miss (n.) A young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille].
Miss (n.) A failure to hit (or meet or find etc) [syn: miss, misfire].
Miss (n.) A form of address for an unmarried woman.
Miss (v.) Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said" [syn: miss, lose].
Miss (v.) Feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother".
Miss (v.) Fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week" [ant: attend, go to].
Miss (v.) Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart].
Miss (v.) Fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train".
Miss (v.) Be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!" [syn: miss, lack] [ant: feature, have].
Miss (v.) Fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target" [ant: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into, strike].
Miss (v.) Be absent; "The child had been missing for a week".
Miss (v.) Fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" [syn: miss, escape].
MISS, () Mecklenburg Internet Service System (ISP).
MISS, (n.) The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
Missae (n. pl. ) of Missa.
Missa (n.) (R. C. Ch.) 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. -- Bp. Hall.
Missal (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year.
Missay (v. t.) To say wrongly.
Missay (v. t.) To speak evil of; to slander. [Obs.]
Missay (v. i.) To speak ill. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Misseek (v. t.) To seek for wrongly. [Obs.]
Misseem (v. i.) To make a false appearance. [Obs.]
Misseem (v. i.) To misbecome; to be misbecoming. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Missel (n.) Mistletoe. [Obs.]
Missel bird, Missel thrush (Zool.), A large European thrush ({Turdus viscivorus) which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
Misseldine (n.) The mistletoe. [Obs.] -- Baret.
Misseltoe (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.
Missemblance (n.) False resemblance or semblance. [Obs.]
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. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." -- Pope.
Misshapen (a.) Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." -- Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n.
Misshapen (a.) So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers" [syn: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen].
Missheathed (a.) Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. -- Shak.
Missificate (v. i.) To perform Mass. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Missile (a.) Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or engine [2], so as to strike an object at a distance.
We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart. -- Pope.
Missile (n.) A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
Missile (n.) A rocket-propelled device designed to fly through the air and deliver a warhead of explosive materials to a target.
Note: Numerous types of rocket-propelled missile [2] are now used in modern warfare. Some types with names indicating their range or function are: antiaircraft missile; ballistic missile; cruise missile; antiballistic missile missile; air-to-air missile;
air-to-ground missile; guided missile; intercontinental ballistic missile (IBM); intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM); surface-to-air missile.
Missile (n.) A rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control.
Missile (n.) A weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile].
Missile (n.) [ C ] (C2) 導彈 A flying weapon that has its own engine so that it can travel a long distance before exploding at the place that it has been aimed at.
// A missile launcher.
// Missile attacks on the capital resumed at dawn.
Missile (n.) (Formal) 投擲物 Any object that is thrown with the intention of causing injury or damage.
// Stones, bottles, and other missiles were thrown at the police.
Missing (v. i.) Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
Neither was there aught missing unto them. -- 1 Sam. xxv. 7.
For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. -- Milton.
Missing (a.) Not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person".
Missing (a.) Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking" [syn: lacking, absent, missing, wanting].
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Missing (a.) (A2) 失蹤的，下落不明的 Someone who is missing has disappeared.
// Her father has been missing since September 1992.
// (UK) The girl went missing during a family outing to Mount Snowdon.
Missing (a.) (B1) 丟失的，找不到的 Something that is missing cannot be found because it is not where it should be.
// The burglars have been arrested but the jewellery is still missing.
// When did you realize that the money was missing from your account?
Missing (a.) （士兵及軍用車輛在戰爭中）失蹤的，下落不明的 Missing soldiers or military vehicles have not returned from fighting in a war but are not known completely certainly to be dead or destroyed.
// He was listed as missing in action.
Missingly (adv.) With a sense of loss. [Obs.] -- Shak.
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.
Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves. -- Shak.
Mission (n.) That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
How to begin, how to accomplish best His end of being on earth, and mission high. -- Milton.
Mission (n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy; as, the Russian mission to the United Nations.
In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house. -- Bacon.
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. -- Addis & Arnold.
Mission (n.) Dismission; discharge from service. [Obs.]
Mission school. (a) A school connected with a mission and conducted by missionaries.
Mission school. (b) A school for the religious instruction of children not having regular church privileges.
Syn: Message; errand; commission; deputation.
Mission (v. t.) To send on a mission. [Mostly used in the form of the past participle.] -- Keats.
Mission (n.) An organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work [syn: mission, missionary post, missionary station, foreign mission].
Mission (n.) An operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters; "the planes were on a bombing mission" [syn: mission, military mission].
Mission (n.) A special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge, commission].
Mission (n.) The organized work of a religious missionary [syn: mission, missionary work].
Mission (n.) A group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission].
Mission, OR -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oregon
Population (2000): 1019
Housing Units (2000): 336
Land area (2000): 7.644868 sq. miles (19.800116 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.644868 sq. miles (19.800116 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49000
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.666940 N, 118.672899 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mission, OR
Mission
Mission, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
Population (2000): 904
Housing Units (2000): 339
Land area (2000): 0.593427 sq. miles (1.536968 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.593427 sq. miles (1.536968 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42940
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.306758 N, 100.656481 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57555
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mission, SD
Mission
Mission, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 9727
Housing Units (2000): 5329
Land area (2000): 2.529158 sq. miles (6.550488 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.529158 sq. miles (6.550488 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47225
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.025572 N, 94.656056 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66205
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mission, KS
Mission
Mission, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 45408
Housing Units (2000): 17723
Land
area (2000): 24.128675 sq. miles (62.492979 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007331 sq. miles (0.018988 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 24.136006 sq. miles (62.511967 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48768
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 26.211402 N, 98.321277 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Missionaries (n. pl. ) of Missionary.
Missionary (n) [C] 傳教士；倡導者，鼓吹者 [（+for）] One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion. -- Swift.
Missionary apostolic, a Roman Catholic missionary sent by commission from the pope.
Missionary (a.) 傳教的；教會的；傳教士的 Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.
Missionary (a.) Relating to or connected to a religious mission [syn: {missionary}, {missional}].
Missionary (n.) Someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program.
Missionary (n.) Someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country [syn: {missionary}, {missioner}].
Missioner (n.) A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." -- Dryden.
Missioner (n.) Someone sent on a mission -- especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country [syn: missionary, missioner].
Missis (n.) A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate. -- G. Eliot.
Missis (n.) Informal term of address for someone's wife [syn: missus, missis].
Missish (a.) Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental. -- Miss"ish*ness, n.
Missit (v. t.) To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Missive (a.) 【罕】送出的（公文等） Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive. -- Ayliffe.
Missive (a.) Missile. "The missive weapons fly." -- Dryden.
Letters missive, Letters conveying the permission, comand, or advice of a superior authority, as a sovereign. They are addressed and sent to some certain person or persons, and are distinguished from letters patent, which are addressed to the public.
Missive (n.) 公文；書信 That which is sent; a writing containing a message.
Missive (n.) One who is sent; a messenger. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Missive (n.) A written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor" [syn: letter, missive].
Missound (v. t.) To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. -- E,Hall.
Misspeak (v. i.) 講錯話；發錯音 To err in speaking.
Misspeak (v. t.) 講錯；發錯……的音 To utter wrongly.
Misspeak (v.) Pronounce a word incorrectly; "She mispronounces many Latinate words" [syn: mispronounce, misspeak].
Misspeech (n.) Wrong speech. [Obs.]
Misspelled (imp. & p. p.) of Misspell.
Misspelt () of Misspell.
Misspelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misspell.
Misspell (v. t.) 拼錯 To spell incorrectly.
Misspell (v.) Spell incorrectly.
Misspelling (n.) A wrong spelling.
Misspelling (n.) A spelling that is incorrect.
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. -- J. Philips.
Misspender (n.) One who misspends.
Misspense (n.) A spending improperly; a wasting. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
Misspent () imp. & p. p. of Misspend.
Misstate (v. t.) To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. -- Bp. Sanderson.
Misstate (v.) State something incorrectly; "You misstated my position".
Misstatement (n.) An incorrect statement.
Misstatement (n.) A statement that contains a mistake.
Misstayed (a.) (Naut.) 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.
Misstep (n.) An unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep" [syn: trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep].
Missuccess (n.) Failure. [Obs.]
Missuggestion (n.) Wrong or evil suggestion. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Missummation (n.) Wrong summation.
Misswear (v. i.) To swear falsely.
Missy (n.) (Min.) See Misy.
Missy (n.) 少女，姑娘，小姐 An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss.
Missy (a.) Like a miss, or girl.
Missy (n.) A young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: {girl}, {miss}, {missy}, {young lady}, {young woman}, {fille}].
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. -- Shak.
Mist (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.
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.
His passion cast a mist before his sense. -- Dryden.
Mist flower (Bot.), A composite plant ({Eupatorium coelestinum), having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of lavender-blue flowers. It is found in the Western and Southern United States.
Mist (n.) A thin fog with condensation near the ground.
Mist (v.) Become covered with mist; "The windshield misted over" [syn: mist, mist over].
Mist (v.) Make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist].
Mist (v.) Spray finely or cover with mist.
Mistakable (a.) Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived. -- Sir T. Browne.
Mistakable (a.) So similar as to be easily identified for another thing; "potentially confusable senses of words"; "easily mistakable signals" [syn: confusable, mistakable].