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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. Mis-coun'sel, v. t.p. 843To counsel or advise wrongly. Spenser.
  2. Mis-count', v. t.p. 843To count erroneously; to mistake in counting.
  3. Mis-count', v. i.p. 843To make wrong reckoning.
  4. Mis-count’, n.p. 843An erroneous counting or numbering.
  5. Mis-cōv'et, v. t.p. 843To desire wrongfully. [Obs.]
  6. Mis'cre-ance or Mis'cre-an-cy, n.p. 843The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith; unbelief. [Obs.]
  7. 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.
  8. Mis'cre-ātē', a.p. 843Formed unnaturally or illegitimately.
  9. Mis'cre-āt'edp. 843mately; deformed. [Obs.]
  10. Mis'cre-ā'tive, a.p. 843Tending to wrong creation.
  11. 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.
  12. Mĭs'eu, n.p. 844An Indian tooth-powder. Simmonds.
  13. Mis-dāte', n.p. 844A wrong date.
  14. Mis-dāte', v. t.p. 844To date erroneously.
  15. Mis-deed', n.p. 844An evil deed; a wicked action. “Evils which our own misdeeds have done.” Milton. Syn.—Misconduct; misdemeanor; fault; offense; trespass; transgression; crime.
  16. Mis-deem', v. t.p. 844To judge erroneously; to misjudge; to mistake in judging. “Misdeeming the cause to be in God’s law which is in man’s unrighteous ignorance.” Milton.
  17. Mis'de-mēan', v. t.p. 844To behave or demean ill. Shak.
  18. Mis'de-mēan'ant, n.p. 844One guilty of a misdemeanor. Misdemeanants, who have money in their pockets, may be seen in many of our prisons. S. Smith.
  19. Mis'-de-mēan'-or, n.p. 844Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault; mismanagement. 2. (Law.) Any crime less than a felony. The term applies to all offenses for which the law has not furnished a particular name. New Am. Cyc. Wharton.…
  20. Mis'de-pārt', v. t.p. 844To divide or distribute wrongly or unequally. [Obs.] “He misdeparteth riches temporal.” Chaucer.
  21. Mis'de-rīve', v. t.p. 844To err in deriving.
  22. Mis'de-scribe', v. t.p. 844To describe erroneously.
  23. Mis'de-sērt', n.p. 844Ill desert. [Obs.] Spenser.
  24. Mis'de-vō'tion, n.p. 844False devotion; mistaken piety. [Obs.] Donne.
  25. Mis-di'et, n.p. 844Improper diet or food. [Obs.] Spenser.
  26. Mis-dight′, a.p. 844Arrayed, prepared, or furnished wrongly or unfitly. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  27. Mis'di-rēct', v. t.p. 844To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger. 2. To direct to a wrong person or place; as, to misdirect a letter.
  28. Mis'di-rēc'tion, n.p. 844The act of directing wrongly. 2. (Law.) An error of a judge in charging the jury.
  29. Mis-dis'po-si'tion, n.p. 844Disposition to evil. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  30. Mĭs'dis-tĭn'guish, v. t.p. 844To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.
  31. Mis'di-vīde', v. t.p. 844To divide wrongly.
  32. Mis'dĭ-vī'sion, n.p. 844Wrong or inaccurate division.
  33. Mis-dō', v. t.p. 844To do wrongly.
  34. Mis-dō', v. i.p. 844To do wrong; to do amiss; to commit a fault or crime. Milton.
  35. Mis-do'er, n.p. 844One who misdoes; one who commits a fault or crime; a wrong-doer. Spenser.
  36. Mis-dō'ing, n.p. 844A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense.
  37. Mis-doubt', v. t.p. 844To suspect of deceit or danger; to be suspicious of; to regard with foreboding of evil. [Obs.] “Misdoubt him not.” Beau. & Fl.
  38. Mis-doubt', v. i.p. 844To have suspicion; to suspect. [Obs.]
  39. Mis-doubt', n.p. 844Suspicion of crime or danger. 2. Irresolution; hesitation. [Obs.] Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts, And change misdoubt to resolution. Shak.
  40. Mis-doubt'ful, a.p. 844Misgiving. [Obs.] She 'gan to cast in her misdoubtful mind A thousand fears. Spenser.
  41. Mis-drēad’, n.p. 844Dread of evil. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  42. MĪse, n.p. 844(Law.) The issue in a writ of right. 2. Expense; cost; disbursement. 3. A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the…
  43. Mis-ēase', n.p. 844Want of ease; uneasiness. [Obs.]
  44. Mis-ēas'y, a.p. 844Not easy; painful; uneasy. [Obs.]
  45. Mis'e-dī'tion, n.p. 844An incorrect or spurious edition. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  46. Mis-ēd'ū-cā'ted, a.p. 844Educated in a wrong manner.
  47. Mis'em-ploy', v. t.p. 844To employ to no purpose, or to a bad purpose; to use amiss; as, to misemploy time, power, advantages, talents, &c.
  48. Mis'em-ploy'ment, n.p. 844Ill employment; application to no purpose, or to a bad purpose.
  49. Mis'en-trēat', v. t.p. 844To treat wrongfully or injuriously.
  50. Mis-èn’try, n.p. 844An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.
  51. Mi'ser, n.p. 844A miserable person; one wretched or afflicted. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. A wretch; a mean fellow; especially, an extremely covetous person; a sordid wretch; a niggard; one who in wealth makes himself…
  52. Mis'er-a-ble, a.p. 844Very unhappy; in a state of misery or distress; wretched; suffering from any cause. It expresses somewhat less than wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man? Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or…
  53. Mĭs'er-a-ble-ness, n.p. 844The state of being miserable; poorness.
  54. Mis'er-a-bly, adv.p. 844In a miserable manner; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.
  55. Mĭs'er-ā'tion, n.p. 844Commiseration; pity. [Obs.]
  56. Mĭs'e-rē're, n.p. 844(Rom. Cath. Church.) The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 51st psalm, which commences with this word. 2. (Mus.) A musical composition adapted to the 51st psalm. 3. (Arch.) A…
  57. Mis'er-i-côrd', n.p. 844Compassion; pity; sympathy. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gower. 2. (Arch.) See MISERERE.
  58. Mĭs'er-i-cōr'di-a, n.p. 844(O. Law.) An amercement. Burrill. 2. (Anc. Armor.) A narrow-bladed dagger used by a knight in the middle ages;—so called because employed against a dismounted adversary whom he had forced to cry for…
  59. Mis'er-ly, a.p. 844Very covetous; sordid; niggardly; parsimonious. Syn.—Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.
  60. Mis'er-y, n.p. 844Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Miseria is as really the fruit of vice reigning in the heart, as tares are the produce of tares sown in the field. J.…