Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MIS-SHAP'ED, or MIS-SHAP'EN, pp.

Ill-formed; deformed; ugly.

MIS-SHAP-EN-LY, adv.

In a misshapen way.

MIS-SHAP-EN-NESS, n.

The state of being badly shaped.

MIS-SHAP-ING, ppr.

Giving an ill shape to.

MIS'SILE, a. [L. missilis, from missus, sent; mitto, to send.]

Thrown or sent, or that may he thrown. A missile weapon is one that is thrown by the hand, or from an engine in war, in distinction from such as are held or retained in the hand, or fixed. An arrow, a dart, a javelin, a stone, a bullet, a bomb, are missile weapons.

MIS'SILE, n.

A weapon thrown or intended to be thrown for doing execution; as a lance, an arrow or a bullet.

MISS'ING, ppr. [from miss.]

1. Failing to hit, to reach or to find; discovering to be wanting.
2. adj. Lost; absent from the place where it was expected to be found; wanting. My horse is missing; my pen or my book is missing. For a time caught up to God, as once / Moses was in the mount, and missing long. Milton.

MIS'SION, n. [missio, from mitto, to send.]

1. A sending or being sent, usually the latter; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; commission; as, sent on a foreign mission. How to begin, how to accomplish best / His end of being on earth, and mission high. Milton.
2. Persons sent; any number of persons appointed by authority to perform any service; particularly, the persons sent to propagate religion, or evangelize the heathen. The societies for propagating the Gospel have missions in almost every country. Last week a mission sailed for the Sandwich Isles. We have domestic missions and foreign missions.
3. Dismission; discharge from service; a Roman use of the word; in English, obsolete. Bacon.
4. Faction; party. [Not in use.] Shak.

MIS'SION-A-RY, a.

Pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

MIS'SION-A-RY, n. [Fr. missionaire.]

One sent to propagate religion. Christian missionaries are called missionaries of the cross.

MIS'SION-ATE, v.i.

To act as a missionary. [Not well authorized.]

MIS'SION-ER, n. [or a.]

[for Missionary, is not used.]

MIS'SIVE, a. [Fr.]

1. Such as is sent; as, a letter missive.
2. Thrown or sent, or such as may be sent; as, a missive weapon. Dryden.

MIS'SIVE, n.

A letter sent, or a messenger. Bacon. Shak.

MIS-SPEAK', v.i. [See Speak.]

To err or mistake in speaking. Shak.

MIS-SPEAK', v.t.

To utter wrong. Donne.

MIS-SPELL', v.t.

To spell wrong; to write or utter with wrong letters.

MIS-SPELL'ED, or MIS-SPELT', pp.

Spelled wrong, or with wrong letters.

MIS-SPELL'ING, n.

A wrong spelling; false orthography.

MIS-SPELL'ING, ppr.

Spelling wrong.

MIS-SPEND', v.t.

1. To spend amiss; to waste or consume to no purpose, or to a bad one; as, to misspend time or money; to misspend life. Dryden. Rogers.
2. To waste. The genial moisture due / To apples, otherwise misspends itself. Philips.

MIS-SPEND'ER, n.

One that consumes prodigally or improperly. Norris.

MIS-SPEND'ING, ppr.

Spending to no purpose, or to a bad one.

MIS-SPENSE, n. [misspens'.]

A spending improperly; a wasting.

MIS-SPENT', pp.

Ill spent; expended or consumed to no purpose, or to a bad one; as, misspent time or life.