Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

1. To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger.
2. 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.

MIS-DIS-PO-SI'TION, n.

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.

1. Suspicion of crime or danger. [Not used.] Shak.
2. 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.]

1. In law, an issue to be tried at the grand assize.
2. Expense; cost.
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 county Palatine of Chester at the change of the owner of the earldoms. Encyc.

MIS-ED'U-CA-TED, a.

1. Educated in a wrong manner. Mrs. Montagu.
2. 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.

MIS-EN-CUM'BER-ED, a.

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.]

1. A miserable person; one wretched or afflicted. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A wretch; a mean fellow. [Obs.] Shak.
3. 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.