mis speak, misspeake, mispeak

i. & t. mist =foggy weather; Dut. mist =fog; Ger. mist = [Pref. mis-, and Eng. speak (q. v.).] mistaking I. Lit .: Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere at or near the surface of the earth; the fall of rain or water in almost imperceptible fine drops. "The mist and the rain which the west wind brings up from a boundle ocean."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xii. A dense mist is called a fog (q. v.). 2. Fig .: Anything which dims, obscures, or dark ens. "All mist from thence Purge and disperse."