Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MIS-IN-FORM-A'TION, n.

Wrong information; false account or intelligence received. Bacon. South.

MIS-IN-FORM'ED, pp.

Wrongly informed.

MIS-IN-FORM'ER, n.

One that gives wrong information.

MIS-IN-FORM'ING, ppr.

Communicating erroneous information to.

MIS-IN-STRUCT', v.t.

To instruct amiss. Hooker.

MIS-IN-STRUCT'ED, pp.

Instructed amiss.

MIS-IN'STRUC'TION, n.

Wrong instruction. More.

MIS-IN-TEL'LI-GENCE, n.

Wrong information; disagreement.

MIS-IN-TER'PRET, v.t.

To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense. Arbuthnot.

MIS-IN-TER-PRET-A'TION, n.

The act of interpreting erroneously.

MIS-IN-TER'PRET-ED, a.

Erroneously understood or explained.

MIS-IN-TER'PRET-ER, n.

One who interprets erroneously.

MIS-IN-TER'PRET-ING, ppr.

Erroneously interpreting.

MIS-JOIN', v.t.

To join unfitly or improperly. Milton. Dryden.

MIS-JOIN'ED, pp.

Improperly united.

MIS-JOIN'ING, ppr.

Joining unfitly or improperly.

MIS-JUDGE, v.i. [misjudj'.]

To err in judgment; to form false opinions or notions.

MIS-JUDGE, v.t. [misjudj'.]

To mistake in judging of; to judge erroneously. L'Estrange.

MISJUDGED, pp.

Judged erroneously.

MIS-JUDGING, ppr.

Judging erroneously of; forming a wrong opinion or inference.

MIS-JUDG'MENT, n.

A wrong or unjust determination. Hale.

MIS'KIN, n.

A little bagpipe.

MIS-KIN'DLE, v.t.

To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose.

MIS-LAID, pp.

Laid in a wrong place, or place not recollected; lost.

MIS-LAY', v.t.

1. To lay in a wrong place. The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. Locke.
2. To lay in a place not recollected; to lose. If the butler be the tell-tale, mislay a spoon so that he may never find it. Swift.