miss (2), mis, mys, misse (2)

[MISS, v.] I. Ordinary Language: *1. A fault, an offense; a failure of duty. "To mend my mi e."- William of Palerne , 532. 2. A mistake, an error. "He did without any very great mi in the hardest points of grammar."- Ascham : Schoolmaster. *3. Harm or hurt from mistake. "And though one fall through heedle haste, Yet is his mi e not mickle." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar. 4. A failure to hit, reach, obtain, .; as, to make a mi in firing at a target. *5. A feeling of the lo , absence, or want of something. "I should have a heavy mi of thee." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. I., v. 4. *6. Lo , absence. "Those that mourn for the mi of others." -Sutton : Learn to Die (ed. 1848), p. 184. II. Billiards : A stroke in which the player's ball does not hit another ball, or, in pool, hits the wrong ball. mis-said (ai as ě), pa. par.ora. [MISSAY.] mis-sal, s . & a. [Low Lat. mi ale , from mi a =a ma ; O. Fr. mi el , me el; French mi el ; Sp. misal; Ital. me ale .] A. As substantive : Eccles . & Church Hist.: The book containing the whole service of the ma throughout the year. In its present arrangement it dates from about the middle of the fourteenth century. The Roman mi al is used generally throughout the Roman "And how does mi and madam do?" Cowper: Yearly Distre . 2. A title of addre prefixed to the name of an unmarried female; a form of addre to an unmarried female. "Fie, mi , how you bawl!" Congreve: Love for Love, iii. *3. A kept mistre , a concubine. "She being taken to be the Earle of Oxford's mi e."Evelyn: Diary , 9th Jan., 1662. *4. A strumpet, a prostitute. II. Cards : An extra hand dealt aside on the table in three-card loo, for which a player is at liberty to exchange his hand. cese of Milan, and many religious orders have their own mi als, differing only in unimportant particulars from the Roman. Eastern Christians of the Communion with Rome have mi als peculiar to their own rite. [RITE, 11.] Mi als from which ma is said are, of course, in the ecclesiastical languages; those for the use of the laity have a translation in the vernacular, side by side with the Latin or other ecclesiastical language. *B. As adj .: Pertaining to the ma . ( Bp . Hall: Old Religion, ch. v.) *mi -an-swer, *mi e-an-swer ( w silent), s. [Pref. mis- , and Eng. answer , s. (q.v.)] A failure. "After the mi canswer of the one talent." - Bp. Hall: Contempl.; Vayle of Moses . pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, mi a tical *mis-sat-ic-al, a. [Latin mi a =ma .] Of or pertaining to the ma . "The mi a tical corruption of their priesthood."Hacket: Life of Williams, 1. 101. mis-sāy', *mis-saie, v. i. [Pref. mis-, and Eng. say, v. (q. v.).] A. Transitive : 1. To say or speak wrongly or ami . *2. To speak ill of; to slander. B. Intransitive: 1. To say wrong; to make a mistake in what one says. 2. To speak ill or abusively. *mis-say-er, *mis-say-ere, s. [Pref. mis-, and Eng. sayer (q. v.).] One who mi ays; an evil speaker. *mis-script', s. [Pref. mis- , and Lat. scriptum= a thing written'; scribo to write.] A word wrongly or incorrectly written. "These mis scripts look as if descendants of analyzo and paralyzo."- Fitz - Edward Hall : Modern English , p. 175. mis-seē, v. i. [Pref. mis-, and Eng. see (q. v.).] To take a wrong view. "Herein he fundamentally mistook, mi aw , and miswent." Carlyle : Miscellanies , iv. 236. *mis seēk', *mis-seke, v . t . [Pref. mis-, and Eng. seek (q. v.).] To seek or search for wrongly, or in a wrong direction. "And yet the thing, that most is your desire, You do mi eke." Wyatt: Of the meane and sure Estate. *mis seem', v. i. [Pref. mis- , and English seem (q. v.).] 1. To make a false appearance. 2. To be unbecoming; to misbecome.