Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MIS-TRANS-LAT'ED, pp.

Erroneously rendered into another language.

MIS-TRANS-LAT'ING, ppr.

Translating incorrectly.

MIS-TRANS-LA'TION, n.

An erroneous translation or version.

MIS-TREAT', v.t.

To treat amiss; to abuse.

MIS'TRESS, n. [Fr. maîtresse; It. maestra, maestressa; Sp. maestra; L. magistra; Ir. maigh is treas. See Master.]

1. A woman who governs; correlative to servant, slave, or subject. My mistress here lies murdered in her bed. Shak.
2. The female head of a family.
3. That which governs; a sovereign. Rome was mistress of the world.
4. One that commands, or has possession and sovereignty. The queen is mistress of the Indies.
5. A female who is well skilled in any thing; as, she is mistress of arithmetic.
6. A woman teacher; an instructress of a school. Swift.
7. A woman beloved and courted. Clarendon.
8. A woman in keeping for lewd purposes.
9. A term of contemptuous address. Shak.

MIS'TRESS, v.t.

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. Donne.

MIS'TRESS-PIECE, n.

A chief performance of a woman. Lord Herbert.

MIS'TRESS-SHIP, n.

Female rule or dominion. Hall.

MIS-TRUST', n. [Dan. miströst. See Trust.]

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion.

MIS-TRUST', v.t. [Dan. mistroer; Sw. misstro. See Trust.]

To suspect; to doubt; to regard with jealousy or suspicion. Fate her own book mistrusted at the sight. Cowley.

MIS-TRUST'ED, pp.

Suspected.

MIS-TRUST'FUL, a.

Suspicious; doubting; wanting confidence in.

MIS-TRUST'FUL-LY, adv.

With suspicion or doubt.

MIS-TRUST'FUL-NESS, n.

Suspicion; doubt. Sidney.

MIS-TRUST'ING, ppr.

Suspecting; having no confidence in.

MIS-TRUST'ING-LY, adv.

With distrust or suspicion.

MIS-TRUST'LESS, a.

Unsuspecting; unsuspicious. Carew.

MIS-TUNE, v.t.

To tune wrong or erroneously; to put out of tune. Skelton.

MIS-TUN-ED, pp.

Put out of tune.

MIS-TURN', t.

To pervert. [Not used.]

MIS-TU'TOR, v.t.

To instruct amiss.

MIS-TU'TOR-ED, pp.

Instructed amiss.

MIST'Y, a. [from mist.]

1. Overspread with a mist; filled with very minute drops of rain; as, misty weather; a misty atmosphere; a misty night or day. Spenser. Pope.
2. Dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight.

MIS-UN-DER-STAND, v.t.

To misconceive; to mistake; to take in a wrong sense. Locke. Addison.

MIS-UN-DER-STAND'ING, n.

1. Misconception; mistake of the meaning; error. Bacon.
2. Disagreement; difference; dissension; sometimes a softer name for quarrel. Swift.