missel tree (misltre)

In British Guiana, a moderate-sized tree, Bellucia quinquenervis, of the natural order Melas to maceæ. It bears a six celled berry, flavored like raspberry, seated in a permanent yellow bell-shaped calyx. Smith, Dict. Economic Plants. mi emblancet (mis-sem'blans), n. [ Mis sensing his lines. Feltham, Resolves, p. 107. mi entencet (mis-sen'tens), n . [ mis -1 + sentence.] A wrong or undeserved sentence. That mis-sentence which pronounced by a plain man would appear most gro . .. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, I. 72. ( Davies .) mi erve (mis-serv'), v. t.; pret. and pp. mis served , ppr. mis serving . ( mi erven ; く mis -1 + serve .] To serve badly. I was my erved of my dynere. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 78). The good statute, whereby a man may have what he think eth he hath, and not be abused or mis served in that he buys. Bacon , Judicial Charge. mi et (mis-set'), v . t .; pret. and pp. mi et , ppr. mi etting . [ mi et ten ; mis -1 + set1.] To set ami ; place wrongly. Many a worde I overskipte In my tale, for pure fere Lest my wordys my et were. Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 1210. If, therefore, that boundary of suits [an oath] be taken away, or mi et , where shall be the end? Bacon, Judicial Charge. or utter wrongly or ami . Lest any thing in general might be mi aid in their publick Prayers through ignorance, or want of care, contrary to the faith. Milton , Animadversions, § 2. 2. To speak ill of; slander. [Obsolete or archaic.] It is synne. whan that he by lightne e or folie mys seyeth or scorneth his neighebore. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. Be thow no chyder, ne of wordys boold To my ay thy neyghbors nouther yong ne oolde. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 42. Our minnie's sair mis - set after her ordinar, sir. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, xviii. mi hape (mis-shap'), v. t.; pret. mi haped, pp. mi hapen or mi haped , ppr. mi haping . [ME. mi hapen ; mis -1+ shape , v.] To shape ill; give bad form to; deform. O was it warwolf in the wood, My ain true love, that mis - shaped thee? Far liefer had I fight a score of times Than hear thee so mi ay me and revile. 3t. To reproach; rebuke. And my eide the lewes manliche and manaced hem to bete. Piers Plowman (B), xvi. 127. II.t in trans. To speak ami ; speak ill. Now mercie swete, yf I my ey. Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, 1. 317. mi ayert (mis-sā'ėr), n. One who mi ays; an evil-speaker. And if that any mi ayere Despise women, Blame him, and bidde him holde him stille. Rom . of the Rose , 1. 2231. Locker , A Nice Correspondent. mis script (mis-skript'), n. [ script .] 3. A mistre (of a household). [Southern A word wrongly or incorrectly written. F. Hall , U. S., in negro use.] -4. [In this use a direct Mod. Eng., p. 175, note. abbr. of mistre in the same sense-a slang mi ee (mis-sē'), v .; pret. mi aw , pp. mi een , use, independent of the above.] A kept misppr. mi eeing . [ see , v .] I. trans . To tre . take a wrong view of; see in a false or distort She being taken to be the Earle of Oxford's mi e (as ated form. this time they began to call lewd women). Evelyn, Diary, Jan. 9, 1662. Undecent women,. inflaming sever all young noble- men and gallants, became their mi es . Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 18, 1666. If after all you think it a disgrace That Edward's mi thus perks it in your face. Pope , Epil. to Rowe's Jane Shore, 1. 46.