Lexicon: misgiving – mis sum

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misgiving, n. [see give, v.]

Failing of confidence; feeling of mistrust; apprehension; doubt; mistake.

misinfer, v. [see infer, v.] (webplay: admit, God, perceive, true).

Draw a wrong inference; misconceive; mistakenly not take notice of.

miss, n. [clipping of mistress.]

Mistress; title for a young lady.

miss (-ed, -es, -ing), v. [OE] (webplay: common, decay, road, way).

  1. Be without; yearn for; have feelings of great loss, want, or absence.
  2. Fail in aim; fail to hit or meet; be unsuccessful.
  3. Be without; do without.
  4. Fail to obtain; not find or discover; err in attempting to find.
  5. Fail; mistakenly forget; omit; pass by; miscarry as by accident.
  6. Discover something is not where it's supposed to be.

missing, adj. [see miss, v.]

Absent; lost; departed; moved away; no longer here; [fig.] dead; deceased.

mission, n. [L. mittere, to send.]

Function; duty.

missionary, n. [Fr.]

One sent to propagate an idea to an unbeliever.

missle (-s), n. [L. mittere, to send.]

Destructive projectile; weapon intending to kill or ruin.

missum (mis sum), v. [see sum.]

Miscount; miscalculate; inaccurately add; [Webster 1844] “missumation, a wrongful summation.”

mis sum, v. [see missum.]