mis tradition (mist radish on)

[ The huge corruptions of the Church, Monsters of mis tradition . Tennyson, Queen Mary, iv. 2. mistrain (mis-trān'), v. t. [ train .] To train or educate ami . With corrupt full brybes is to untruth mis - trayned . Spenser, F. Q., V. xi. 54. mistral (mis'tral), n. [F. mistral = Sp. mistral, mistral , OPr. maestral , lit. 'the master-wind,' maestre , master, magister , master: see master1 .] In southern France and vicinity, a cold and dry northwest wind which blows in furious gusts from time to time in much of that region, notably in winter. The mistral derives its peculiar properties from the character of the country over which it blows; it extends from the mouth of the Ebro to the Gulf of Genoa, but is strongest and most frequent over Provence, and especially in the delta of the Rhone. Also written maestral. When the Mistral blows, the sky is almost always blue and cloudle , and the air very dry; the contrast between the prevailing sunshine and the piercing cold of the wind is very striking. In the Rhone valley every second day is a Mistral day; in Marseilles it blows 175 days in the year. Fischer. It is only truth to say, however, that the mistral , an odious, cold, cutting northeast wind, blows here in the winter, and gives Avignon a bad name. C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, i. mistranscription (mis-tran-skrip's hon), n. [ transcription .] A wrong or imperfect transcription; a faulty copy. A mistake arising from the mistranscription of the title. Encyc. Brit., XV. 219.