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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Mĭs'cel-la-ny, n.p. 843A mass or mixture of various kinds; a medley. 2. Especially, a collection of compositions on various subjects; a collection of various compositions.
  2. Mis'cel-la-ny, a.p. 843Miscellaneous. [Obs.] Bacon.
  3. Mis-cĕn'ter or Mis-cĕn'tre, v. t.p. 843To center, or place amiss. [Obs.] Donne.
  4. Mis-chăn'ce, n.p. 843Ill luck; ill fortune; misfortune; mishap; misadventure. It is a man's unhappiness, his mischance or calamity, but not his fault. South. Syn.—Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity…
  5. Mis-chär'æ-ter-ize, v. t.p. 843To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
  6. Mis-chär'ge', v. t.p. 843To mistake in charging, as an account.
  7. Mis-chärge', n.p. 843A mistake in charging, as an account; an erroneous entry in an account.
  8. Mis'chief, n.p. 843Evil produced or effected, whether with or without intention; injury caused by heedlessness, folly, or perversity; harm, trouble, or vexation coming from human agency; hurt; damage; often, trivial…
  9. Mis’chief, v. t.p. 843To do mischief or harm to; to hurt; to injure; to trouble; to vex. [Obs.] And being divided into regiments and brigades, were the only arms that mischieved us in all those battles and encounters.…
  10. Mis’chief-māk’er, n.p. 843One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.
  11. Mis'chief-māk'ing, a.p. 843Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. Rowe.
  12. Mis'chiev-oŭs, a.p. 843Making mischief; harmful; hurtful; injurious; noxious; as, a mischievous man or disposition. 2. Inclined to do harm; troublesome; vexatious; annoying; as, a mischievous boy. Formerly by many speakers…
  13. Mis'chiev-oŭs-ly, adv.p. 843In a mischievous manner; with injury, hurt, loss, or damage; with evil intention or disposition.
  14. Mis'chiev-ōus-ness, n.p. 843The quality of being mischievous; hurtfulness; noxiousness; disposition to do harm, or to vex or annoy; as, the mischievousness of youth.
  15. Mĭsch’na, n.p. 843The text of the Jewish Talmud. See MISHNA.
  16. Mis-chōōse', v. t.p. 843To choose wrongly. Milton.
  17. Mis-chōōse', v. i.p. 843To make a wrong choice.
  18. Mis-chrĭst’ēn, v. t.p. 843To christen improperly.
  19. Mis'ci-bîl'i-ty, n.p. 843Capability of being mixed. [Obs.]
  20. Mis'ci-ble, a.p. 843Capable of being mixed; mixable; as, oil and water are not miscible. [Obs.] All these had kept the landed and moneyed interests more separated in France, less miscible. Burke.
  21. Mis'çi-tā'tion, n.p. 843Erroneous or inappropriate quotation. Collier.
  22. Mis-cīte', v. t.p. 843To cite erroneously or inappropriately.
  23. Mis-clāim', n.p. 843A mistaken claim or demand.
  24. Mis-cŏg'ni-zant, a.p. 843(Law.) Not cognizant; ignorant.
  25. Mis-cŏg'nīze, v. t.p. 843To understand wrongly; to fail to recognize; to misunderstand. [Obs.] The good never intervert, nor miscognize, the favor and benefit which they have received. Holland.
  26. Mis-cōl'lo-cā'tion, n.p. 843Wrong collocation. De Quincey.
  27. Mis-côm'fort, n.p. 843Discomfort. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  28. Mis-còm/pre-hēnd’, v. t.p. 843To comprehend or understand wrongly.
  29. Mis-côm'/pu-tā'/tion, n.p. 843Erroneous computation; false reckoning. Clarendon.
  30. Mis'com-pūte', v. t.p. 843To compute or reckon erroneously.
  31. Mis'con-çeit', n.p. 843Misconception. Spenser.
  32. Mis'con-çēive', v. t. or i.p. 843To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion or opinion of; to misjudge; to have an erroneous understanding of. Our endeavor is . . . to yield to them just and reasonable…
  33. Mis'con-cēiv'er, n.p. 843One who misconceives.
  34. Mis'/con-çēp'tion, n.p. 843Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong notion or understanding of a thing. Great errors and dangers result from a misconception of the names of things. Hervey. Syn.—Misapprehension…
  35. Mis-cōn'duct, n.p. 843Wrong conduct; ill behavior; ill management. Addison. Syn.—Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
  36. Mis'con-dūct', v. t.p. 843To conduct amiss; to mismanage.
  37. Mis'con-dūct', v. i.p. 843To behave amiss.
  38. Mis-cŏn'fi-dent, a.p. 843Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting or believing. [Rare.] Bp. Hall.
  39. Mis'con-jēct'ūre, n.p. 843A wrong conjecture or guess.
  40. Mĭs'con-jēct'ūre, v. t. or i.p. 843To guess wrongly.
  41. Mis-cōn'se-crā'tion, n.p. 843Wrong consecration.
  42. Mis-cōn'se-quence, n.p. 843A wrong consequence.
  43. Mis'con-strŭct', v. t.p. 843To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.
  44. Mis'con-strūc'tion, n.p. 843Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation of words or things; a mistaking of true meaning.
  45. Mis-cōn'strue, v. t.p. 843To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously. Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent. Dryden. A virtuous emperor was much affected to find his actions misconstrued. Addison.
  46. Mis-cōn'stru-er, n.p. 843One who misconstrues.
  47. Mis'/con-tēnt', a.p. 843Not content; discontented. She was not miscontent that he seemed little to regard Jacob's well. Vidal.
  48. Mis’con-tīn’ū-ance, n.p. 843Cessation; discontinuance; intermission. [Obs.]
  49. Mis'cor-rēct', v. t.p. 843To mistake in attempting to correct. He passed the first seven years of his life at Mantua, not seventeen, as Scaliger miscorrects his author. Dryden.
  50. Mis-coun'sel, v. t.p. 843To counsel or advise wrongly. Spenser.
  51. Mis-count', v. t.p. 843To count erroneously; to mistake in counting.
  52. Mis-count', v. i.p. 843To make wrong reckoning.
  53. Mis-count’, n.p. 843An erroneous counting or numbering.
  54. Mis-cōv'et, v. t.p. 843To desire wrongfully. [Obs.]
  55. Mis'cre-ance or Mis'cre-an-cy, n.p. 843The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith; unbelief. [Obs.]
  56. Mis'cre-ant, n.p. 843An infidel, or one who embraces a false faith. “When a man is called upon to show that he is not a pagan or a miscreant.” De Quincey. 2. A vile wretch; an unprincipled fellow.
  57. Mis'cre-ātē', a.p. 843Formed unnaturally or illegitimately.
  58. Mis'cre-āt'edp. 843mately; deformed. [Obs.]
  59. Mis'cre-ā'tive, a.p. 843Tending to wrong creation.
  60. Mĭs'cre-dū'li-ty, n.p. 844Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief; want of belief. [Obs.] “The miscredulity of those who will rather trust to the church than to the Scripture.” Bp. Hall.