Your ShelfYour Projects
Library

Dictionary

An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

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

Entries
95,912
Pages
1,538
Illustrations
2,133

Look up a word as the writers of the time used it.

Read it page by page The scan at the Internet Archive
  1. Mĭs'lin, n. & a.p. 845See MASLIN.
  2. Mis-live', v. i.p. 845To live amiss. [Obs.]
  3. Mis-lŏdge′, v. t.p. 845To lodge amiss. [Obs.] Marston.
  4. Mis-lŭck′, n.p. 845Ill luck; misfortune.
  5. Mis'ly, a.p. 845Raining in very small drops.
  6. Mis-māk'e, v. t.p. 845To make or form amiss; to spoil in making. “Limping possibilities of mismade human nature.” Browning.
  7. Mis-măn'age, v. i.p. 845To behave or manage ill; to conduct amiss.
  8. Mis-măn'age, v. t.p. 845To manage ill; to administer improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
  9. Mis-măn'age-ment, n.p. 845Ill or improper management; ill conduct; as, the mismanagement of public or private affairs.
  10. Mis-măn'a-ger, n.p. 845One who manages ill.
  11. Mis-märk’, v. t.p. 845To mark with the wrong token; to mark erroneously.
  12. Mis-mätch', v. t.p. 845To match unsuitably.
  13. Mis-mĕas'ūre, v. t.p. 845To measure incorrectly.
  14. Mis-mēas'ure-ment, n.p. 845Wrong measurement.
  15. Mis-nāme′, v. t.p. 845To call by the wrong name.
  16. Mis-nō'mer, n.p. 845(Law.) The mistaking of the true name of a person; the using of one name for another; a misnaming. “Many of the changes, by a great misnomer, called parliamentary ‘reforms.’” Burke. 2. A wrong or…
  17. Mis-nūm'ber, v. t.p. 845To number, enumerate, or count wrongly. [Obs.] “The armies . . . were misnumbered.” Raleigh.
  18. Mis-nūrt'ūre, v. t.p. 845To nurture or train wrongly. “Parents misnurturing their children.” Bp. Hall.
  19. Mis'o-bē'di-ence, n.p. 845Erroneous obedience, or disobedience. [Obs.] Milton.
  20. Mis'ob-sĕrve', v. t.p. 845To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.
  21. Mis'ob-sĕrv'er, n.p. 845One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
  22. Mi-sŏg'a-mĭst, n.p. 845A hater of marriage.
  23. Mi-sŏg'a-my, n.p. 845Hatred of marriage.
  24. Mi-sōg'y-nist, n.p. 845A woman-hater.
  25. Mī-sŏg'y-ny, n.p. 845Hatred of the female sex.
  26. Mis'o-pīn'ion, n.p. 845Erroneous opinion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  27. Mis-ōr'der, v. t.p. 845To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. [Obs.] Shak.
  28. Mis-ôr'der, n.p. 845Irregularity; disorderly proceedings; disorder. [Obs.] Camden.
  29. Mis-ôr'der-ly, a.p. 845Irregular; disorderly. [Obs.]
  30. Mis-ōr'di-nā'tion, n.p. 845Wrong ordination. [Obs.]
  31. Mis'o-thē'ism, n.p. 845Hatred of God. [Rare.] De Quincey.
  32. Mis-ōwn', v. t.p. 845To own, avow, or acknowledge wrongly. [Obs.] Stow.
  33. Mis-pās'sion, n.p. 845Wrong passion or feeling. [Obs.]
  34. Mis-pāy’ or Mis-pēll’ or Mis-pēnd’, v. t.p. 845To displease; to discontent or dissatisfy. [Obs.] Mis-pēll’, Mis-pēnd’, &c. See MISSPELL, MISSPEND, &c.
  35. Mis′per-çēp′tion, n.p. 845Erroneous perception.
  36. Mis′per-suāde′, v. t.p. 845To persuade amiss; to lead to a wrong notion.
  37. Mis′per-suā′si-ble-ness, n.p. 845The quality of being incapable of persuasion or conviction. [Obs.] “Sons of mispersuasibleness, that will not be drawn or persuaded.” Leighton.
  38. Mis′per·suā′sion, n.p. 845A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion.
  39. Mis-pick'el, n.p. 845(Min.) Arsenical iron pyrites; an ore of a silver or grayish white color, consisting of iron combined with sulphur and arsenic.
  40. Mis-pla'ce', v. t.p. 845To put in a wrong place; to set on an improper object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
  41. Mis-plāce'ment, n.p. 845The act of putting in the wrong place; the state of being misplaced.
  42. Mis-plead’, v. i.p. 845To err in pleading.
  43. Mis-plead'ing, n.p. 845(Law.) An error in pleading.
  44. Mis-point', v. t.p. 845To point improperly; to err in punctuation.
  45. Mis-pŏl'ĭ-cy, n.p. 845Wrong policy; impolicy. Southey.
  46. Mis-prác'tice, n.p. 845Wrong practice.
  47. Mis-print', v. t.p. 845To mistake in printing; to print wrong.
  48. Mĭs-print′, n.p. 845A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy.
  49. Mis-prīze', v. t.p. 845To mistake. [Obs.] Shak.
  50. Mis-pris'ion, n.p. 845The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. [Obs. or rare.] Many, mistaking gradual for specifical differences amongst orders, have almost doubled their true number on that…
  51. Mis-prīze′, v. t.p. 845To slight or undervalue. O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized! Hillhouse. I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. Browning.
  52. Mis'pro-ceed'ing, n.p. 845Wrong or irregular proceeding.
  53. Mis'pro-fess', v. i.p. 845To make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.
  54. Mis'pro-fess', v. t.p. 845To make a false profession.
  55. Mis′pro-nounce′, v. t.p. 845To pronounce erroneously.
  56. Mis'pro-nounce', v. i.p. 845To pronounce incorrectly.
  57. Mis’pro-nŭn’ci-ā’tĭon, n.p. 845Wrong or improper pronunciation.
  58. Mis/pro-pôr'tion, v. t.p. 845To err in proportioning one thing to another; to join without due proportion.
  59. Mis-proud', a.p. 845Viciously proud. [Obs.] Shak.
  60. Mis'quo-tā'tion, n.p. 845An erroneous quotation; the act of quoting wrong.