Miss Nancy ism (misnansiizm)

[ II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Mi ouri, one of the United States west of the Mi i ippi and south of Iowa. Mi ouri compromise. See compromise. Mi ouri currant. See Ribes. Mi ouri hyacinth. See hyacinth, 2. Mi ouri sucker. See Cycleptus. mi oy-bark (mis'oi-bärk), n. [Also ma oy bark; mi peak (mis-spēk'), v.; pret. mi poke (formerly mi pake ), pp. mi poken (sometimes mis spoke ), ppr. mi peaking. [ Now I me repente If I mi pake. Chaucer , Troilus, i. 934. It is not so; thou hast mi poke , misheard. Shak., K. John, iii. 1. 4. 2t. To speak disrespectfully or disparagingly: with of. Who but mis - speaks of Thee, he spets at Heav'n. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. II. trans. 1. To speak or pronounce wrongly; utter imperfectly. Then as a mother which delights to heare Her early childe mis - speake half-utter'd words. Donne, Poems, p. 177. 2. To expre improperly or imperfectly; speak otherwise than according to one's intention: used reflexively: as, I mi poke myself . [Colloq.] -3t. To blame or calumniate. Davies . Mi peak not all for hir ami ; there bin that keepen flocks, That never chose but once, nor yet beguiled love with mocks, Peele, Arraignment of Paris, iii. 1. mi peakert (mis-spē ́kėr), n . [ speker ; mi peak + -er1.] One who speaks falsely or slanderously. mis supposal (mis-su-pō'zal), n. [ mis -1 + sup- posal . An erroneous supposition. [Rare.] In this case the act (the shooting of William Rufus) was mis-advised, proceeding on the mis - supposal of a preven- tive circumstance. Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, ix. 9. mi uret, n. [L. as if * mi ura , mittere , pp. mi us , send: see mi ion .] A mi ion. Davies . This current parts itself into two rivulets - a commis- sion, a commixtion: the mi ure , "I send you," the mix- ture, "as lambs among wolves." See mi is . To misgovern. Davies . Through mi waying it seemed to decline. IMG:content-0766.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0767.png:[blocks in formation] mi pell (mis-spel'), v. t.; pret. and pp. mis- spelled (sometimes mi pelt ), ppr. mi pelling . [ mis -1 + spell2 .] To spell incorrectly. mi pelling (mis-spel'ing), n. [Verbal n. of mi pell .] A false spelling; false orthography. mi pend (mis-spend'), v . t .; pret. and pp. mis- spent , ppr. mi pending . [ mi penden ; enden ; mis -1 + spend .] To spend end ami ; make a bad or usele expenditure of; waste: as, to mis- spend time or money; to mi pend life. I haue my pendyd my yonge age In synne and wantonnehede also. IMG:content-0768.png:[blocks in formation] mi tep (mis-step'), v . i .; pret. and pp. mi tep- ped , ppr. mi tepping . [ mi tep pen ; mis -1 + step , v.] 1. To make a false step; stumble. She shall not with hir litell to Mi teppe , but he seeth it all. IMG:content-0769.png:[blocks in formation] he obeys you like a Chris- R. D. Black more , Erema, xiv. Charlotte Brontë , Villette, i. Be a good child, mi y. mist1 (mist), n. [ mist , dark- ne , dimne (of the air), also dimne of sight (not used in the sense of 'fog' or 'vapor'), = MD. mist, miest , D. mist , darkne , fog, mist, = LG. mist = Icel. mistr = Sw. mist , darkne , mist. On the a umption that the sense 'vapor' is more original, the word has been identified with OS. mist = D. mist , mest = MLG. miste, LG. mest, me = OHG. MHG. G. mist = Dan. mist- (in mistbænk , a hotbed) = Goth. maihstus , dung, connected with AS. meox, ME. mix, E. mixen , dung (see mix2 , mixen ) , Gr. ὀμίχλη , ὁμίχλη, mist, OBulg. Ru . migla, Lith. migla , mist, Skt. mihira, a cloud, megha , cloud, mih , rain, mist, etc., from a root appearing in the verb, AS . mig an = D. mijgen = LG. migen = MLG. migen = Icel. mig a = L. mingere = Gr. ὀμιχεῖν = Lith. mezhu , urinate, orig. (as in the above- cited derivatives meaning 'cloud,' 'mist,' 'rain,' and in Skt.) 'sprinkle,' 'rain,' = Skt. mih , uri- nate, sprinkle.] 1. A cloud consisting of an ag- greg at i on of a vast number of minute globules of water, and resting upon the ground; fog. Ther was such a myst that a man coude not se ye length of a spere before him. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. lviii. Heavy Mists obscure the burd'ned Air. Congreve, Death of Queen Mary. 2. Precipitation consisting of extremely fine droplets of water, much smaller and more close- ly aggregated than in rain: distinguished from fog in that the droplets are larger and have a perceptible downward motion. In a ship's log- book, abbreviated m . The mist and rain which the west wind brings up from Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xii. IMG:content-0770.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Something which dims or darkens and ob- scures or intercepts physical or intellectual In a tone Mi uiting a great man most. IMG:content-0771.png:[blocks in formation] mist1 (mist), v . [ * misten , mistian , grow dim (= D. misten , be misty, be foggy), mist , darkne , dimne : see mist1 , n. freq.mistle2 , misle , now spelled mizzle .] I. trans . To cover or obscure with or as with mist; cloud; obscure. Lend me a looking-gla ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why then she lives. Shak ., Lear, v. 3. 262. They are set forth in minor and le mistakable numbers, Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 1. mistake (mis-tāk'), v.; pret. mistook , pp. mis- taken , ppr. mistaking . [ mistaken , mistaka , take wrongly, make a slip (= Sw. mi - Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place where I erect- ed it. Shak ., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 225. Mistake a cloak From my lord's back, and pawn it. B. Jonson, New Inn, i. 1. 2. To take or choose erroneously; choose ami , as between alternatives; regard (something) as other than it is: as, to mistake one's road or bearings; to mistake a fixed star for a planet. You have mistook , my lady, Polixenes for Leontes. Shak ., W. T., ii. 1. 81. Reas'ning at ev'ry step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way. IMG:content-0772.png:[blocks in formation] I mean to go along all square, and no mistake . Trollope . =Syn. 1. Error, Bull , etc. See blunder . mistaken (mis-tā'kn), p . a . 1. Wrongly taken; misunderstood; misconceived. So, like the watchful traveller That by the moon's mistaken light did rise, Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes. Dryden, Astræa Redux, 1. 149. mister2 (mis'ter), n. [ mester , trade, calling, occupation, need, F. métier = Sp. mester = Pg. mester = It. mestiere, trade, calling, occupation, ministry . Cf. mistery2, mystery2.] 1. Trade; mechanical occupation; craft. In you the he lerned hadde a good mister , He was a wel good wrighte, a carpenter. Of hem that ben artificers, Whiche vsen craftes and misters , Whose arte is cleped mechanike. IMG:content-0773.png:[blocks in formation] mistakingt (mis-tā'king), n. [Verbal n. of mistake, v.] An error; a mistake. I have done thee worthy service, Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings . The way to find out the Truth is by others' mistakings . Selden , Table-Talk, p. 112. mistakinglyt (mis-ta'king-li), adv . Errone- ously; falsely. mist-bow (mist'bō), n. A white rainbow ob- served at times when mist or fog prevails; a fog-bow. mist-colored (mist'kul" ord), a. Colorle or nearly so: as, a mist - colored leader made of silk- worm gut (a favorite leader with anglers). mistelt, n. See mistle1 . mistellt (mis-tel'), v. t. [= D. mist ellen ; as mis-1 + tell .] To tell or number incorrectly. This inundation of mistemper'd humour Rests by you only to be qualified. Hit may wel be that mester were his mantyle to wa che. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 342. Whan he com nygh he knewe well his vncle, and saugh Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 476. Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 51. 2. To be in nece itous circumstances. - 3. To be nece ary or indispensable. [Obsolete or Scotch in all uses.] misterm (mis-term'), v . t. [ Syr ze haf your tale myse -tente, To say your perle is al awa ye, That is in cofer, so comly clente. Has his majesty dubb'd me a Knight for you to make me a Mister ? Foote , Mayor of Garratt, i. You will come down, Mister Bertram, as my guest to Wycombe Hall? Thoughts which how found they harbour in thy breast, Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear? Milton , P. L., ix. 289. How will the country, for these woful chances, Misthink the king, and not be satisfied! And shew'd him how, through error and misthought Of our like persons, eath to be disguiz'd, Or his exchange or freedom might be wrought. mistimet,v.t. [ ; mis -1+ time1 .] To time wrongly; say or do inopportunely or out of season. Golden words, but mistimed above twelve hundred years. Milman . mistimed (mis-tīmd'), a . Ill-timed; ill-adapted or unsuited to the occasion or circumstances; inopportune; unseasonable. For the mistine scatter eth and breaketh suddenly. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 91. mistiont, n. Both bodies do, by the new texture resulting from their mistion, produce color. Boyle, Colours. mistitle (mis-ti'tl), v. t.; pret. and pp. mistitled , ppr. mistitling . [ title , v.] To call by a wrong title or name. Buchanan writes as if Ethelfrid, a isted by Keaulin, Mist -flower ( Eupatorium cælestinum). whom he mistitles King of East-Saxons, had before this a , a flower. time a battel with Aidan. Milton , Hist. Eng., iv. misthakelt, n. [ME. mysthakel ; mist1 + hakel , a cover: see mist1 and hackle2 .] A covering of mist; a cap of clouds. Mist muged on the mor, malt on the mountez; Vch hille hade a hatte, a myst - hakel huge. misthink (mis-thingk'), v .; pret. and pp. mis- thought , ppr. misthinking . misthinking . [ME. * misthinken , think erroneously or unfavorably. mistlet (mis'l), n. [Also mistel ; mistle , mistil , mistel , bird-lime, mistletoe (L. vis- cus) (also in comp. acmistel , 'oak-mistle,' and misteltān , mistletoe), also basil (L. ocimum ) (also in comp. eorthmistel , 'earth-mistle,' basil) (= MD. mistel OHG. mistil , MHG. G. mistel = Icel. mistil = Sw. Dan. mistel , mistletoe); prob., with formative -el , mist , bird-lime, glue, = OD. mest, mist , bird-lime, glue, also dung, D. mest , dung: see mist . Hence, in comp., mistle thrush , mistletoe.] 1. Bird-lime.-2. Mistletoe. If snowe do continue, sheepe hardly that fare Crave mistle and ivie for them for to spare. Whan they misthinke , they lightly let it pa e. Court of Love, 1. 483. I hope your grace will not mis - think of me. Tu er, Husbandry. ( Latham .) Chapman (?), Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, ii. 2. Mistle , which groweth upon apple-trees and crab-trees, Yes, there is the note and all the parts, if I misthink not. is a great number of white or yealow berries, viscum. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. Withals , Dict. (ed. 1608), p. 96. (Nares.) mistle