Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MIS-BE-LIEV-ER, n.

One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Dryden.

MIS-BE-LIEV-ING, a.

Believing erroneously; irreligious. Shak.

MIS-BE-SEEM, v.t.

To suit ill.

MIS-BE-SEEM'ING, a.

Ill-suiting.

MIS-BE-STOW, v.t.

To bestow improperly. Milton.

MIS-BE-STOW-ED, pp.

Bestowed improperly.

MIS-BE-STOW-ING, ppr.

Bestowing improperly.

MIS'BORN, a.

Born to evil. Spenser.

MIS-CAL'CU-LATE, v.t.

To calculate erroneously. Arbuthnot.

MIS-CAL'CU-LA-TED, pp.

Erroneously calculated.

MIS-CAL'CU-LA-TING, ppr.

Committing errors in calculation.

MIS-CAL-CU-LA'TION, n.

Erroneous calculation.

MIS-CALL', v.t.

To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.

MIS-CALL'ED, pp.

Misnamed.

MIS-CALL'ING, ppr.

Misnaming.

MIS-CAR'RIAGE, n.

1. Unfortunate event of an undertaking; failure. When a counselor, to save himself, / Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden.
2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous. Rogers.
3. The act of bringing forth before the time, but so late that the young are capable of surviving. Encyc.

MIS-CAR'RI-ED, pp.

Failed of the intended effect; brought forth prematurely.

MIS-CAR'RY, v.i.

1. To fail of the intended effect; not to succeed; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat; applied to persons or undertakings, and to things. We say, a project, scheme, design, enterprise, attempt, has miscarried. Have you not heard of Frederick, the great soldier, who miscarried at sea? Shak. My ships have all miscarried. Shak.
2. To bring forth young before the proper time, but still at so late a period as to be capable of surviving.

MIS-CAR'RY-ING, ppr.

Failing of the intended effect. Hos. ix.

MIS-CAST', n.

An erroneous cast or reckoning.

MIS-CAST', pp.

Erroneously cast or reckoned.

MIS-CAST', v.t.

To cast or reckon erroneously. Brown.

MIS-CAST'ING, ppr.

Casting or reckoning erroneously.

MIS-CEL-LA-NA'RI-AN, a. [See Miscellany.]

Belonging to miscellanies; of miscellanies. Miscellanarian authors. Shaftsbury.

MIS-CEL-LA-NA'RI-AN, n.

A writer of miscellanies. Shaftsbury.