Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MIS-CAR'RIAGE, n.

1. Unfortunate event of an undertaking; failure. When a counselor, to save himself, / Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden.
2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous. Rogers.
3. The act of bringing forth before the time, but so late that the young are capable of surviving. Encyc.