Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: MIS-DE-SERT' – MI'SER
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MIS-DE-SERT', n.
Ill desert. Spenser.
MIS-DE-VO'TION, n.
False devotion; mistaken piety. [Little used.] Donne.
MIS-DI'ET, n.
Improper diet or food. [Not used.] Spenser.
MIS-DI-RECT', v.t.
- To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger.
- To direct to a wrong person or place; as, to misdirect a letter.
MIS-DI-RECT'ED, pp.
Directed wrong, or to a wrong person or place.
MIS-DI-RECT'ING, ppr.
Directing wrong, or to a wrong person or place.
Disposition to evil. [Not in use.] Bp. Hall.
MIS-DIS-TIN'GUISH, v.t.
To make wrong distinctions. Hooker.
MIS-DO', v.t. [See Do.]
To do wrong; to do amiss; to commit a crime or fault. Milton.
MIS-DO'ER, n.
One who does wrong; one who commits a fault or crime. Spenser.
MIS-DO'ING, n.
A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense. L'Estrange.
MIS-DO'ING, pp.
Doing wrong; committing a fault or crime.
MIS-DOUBT', n.
- Suspicion of crime or danger. [Not used.] Shak.
- Irresolution; hesitation. [Not used.] Shak.
MIS-DOUBT, v.t. [misdout.]
[See Doubt.] To suspect of deceit or danger. [An ill-formed word and not in use.] Sidney. Shak. Dryden.
MIS-DOUBT'FUL, a.
Misgiving. [Not used.] Spenser.
MISE, n. [meze; Fr. mis, put, laid, pp. of mettre, L. mitto; Norm. mise.]
- In law, an issue to be tried at the grand assize.
- Expense; cost.
- 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 county Palatine of Chester at the change of the owner of the earldoms. Encyc.
MIS-ED'U-CA-TED, a.
- Educated in a wrong manner. Mrs. Montagu.
- Improperly educated. Baxter.
MIS-EM-PLOY', v.t.
To employ to no purpose, or to a bad purpose; as, to misemploy time, power, advantages, talents, &c. Locke. Addison.
MIS-EM-PLOY'ED, pp.
Used to no purpose; or to a bad of one.
MIS-EM-PLOY'ING, ppr.
Using to no purpose, or to a bad one.
MIS-EM-PLOY'MENT, n.
Ill employment; application to no purpose, or to a bad purpose. Hale.
Loaded with mist. J. Barlow.
MIS-EN'TER-ED, pp.
Entered wrong, as an account.
MIS-EN'TRY, n.
An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.
MI'SER, n. [s as z; L. miser, miserable.]
- A miserable person; one wretched or afflicted. [Obs.] Spenser.
- A wretch; a mean fellow. [Obs.] Shak.
- An extremely covetous person; a sordid wretch; a niggard; one who in wealth makes himself miserable by the fear of poverty. [This is the only sense in which it is now used.] No silver saints by dying misers given. Pope.