Midru
"Midru Semper" Midru Semper was a member of the Holy War . He was a devout believer in the divinity of Anasûrimbor Kellhus , and assisted in the expulsion of Ikurei Conphas from Caraskand . In 4121, Semper was murdered by unknown assassins while sleeping .

Midru Semper

Title(s): Baron
Lived: 4078 - 4121
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Ainoni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baron
Books: The Thousandfold Thought The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Midru Semper

Midru Semper
Midru Semper was a member of the Holy War . He was a devout believer in the divinity of Anasûrimbor Kellhus , and assisted in the expulsion of Ikurei Conphas from Caraskand . In 4121, Semper was murdered by unknown assassins while sleeping .

Midru Semper

Migagurit
"Migagurit urs Shanyorta" Scylvendi memorialist.

Migagurit urs Shanyorta
Scylvendi memorialist.

Mihtrûl
The Mihtrûl was a Gnostic School of the Ancient North , the School of Contrivers was destroyed during the Apocalypse . [ citation needed ] The school was founded by nonman Siqu Emilidis , and was credited with the manufacture of a wide number of sorcerous artifacts.

In The White-Luck Warrior

Some remaining sorcerous artifacts created by the School were discovered in the Coffers of the Library of Sauglish by Drusas Achamian and Mimara , include a mail of sheära and a enchanted knife that Mimara names Chipmunk .

Known Members

- Davdûl (Grandmaster)
- Emilidis (founder)

Known Sorcerous creations or Sublime Contrivances

Many of the creations and artifacts of the Mihtrûlic Contrivers were famous for being immune to Chorae . - Amiolas , the recombination of souls
- Barricades , a sorcerous wall
- Chipmunk , an enchanted bronze knife
- Diurnal also known as 'Sky Lantern' or 'False Sun'
- Seeing-Flame or 'Seeing Hearth'
- Sheära , or 'Sunskin', an enchanted coat of mail
- Tharmondal , battleaxe known as 'Sky-cleaver'
- Orimuril , the twisting of down sideways

Mikka
"Mikka Council" The Mikka Council was a minor Anagogic School in ancient Cironj . In 3804, during the Scholastic Wars , it combined with the Oaranat and the Nilitar Compact to become the Mysunsai .

Mikka Council
The Mikka Council was a minor Anagogic School in ancient Cironj . In 3804, during the Scholastic Wars , it combined with the Oaranat and the Nilitar Compact to become the Mysunsai .

Mimara
Mimara (sometimes referred to as Anasûrimbor Mimara ) is Esmenet 's first daughter and eldest child overall. Her father is unknown. She is one of the main protagonists of the Aspect-Emperor trilogy.

Appearance

Mimara is short and lithe, with black hair, green eyes and an acorn-shaped face . She has a saddle of freckles over the bridge of her nose . There is a very strong resemblance between Mimara and her mother, with the only clear differences being the former's differently-coloured eyes , slightly longer jaw and paler skin . Mimara initially has "half-cropped" hair , however, she later shaves her head so she'll resemble Nil'giccas 's dead wife . By the time she and Achamian reach Golgotterath , her hair has grown back to a "cropped penitent short" state .

Personality

Mimara is strong-willed. Spending much of her early life as a prostitute hardened her to physical abuse. According to Inrilatas , the only cruelty she cannot endure is kindness.

Skills

Mimara learned basic swordsmanship at the Imperial Palace. While she is one of the Few , she has never used sorcery , and thus has no Mark and can still handle Chorae . Mimara possesses a mystical ability called the Judging Eye , which allows her to see the marks of good and evil deeds on people's souls, but it manifests only intermittently.

What Came Before

Mimara was born to Esmenet while she was still a prostitute. Unable to support Mimara, and fearing she would die during a severe famine, Esmenet sold her to slavers, a decision she would regret for the rest of her life. Mimara grew up as a child prostitute. She had a number of owners, at least one of whom she killed. When Esmenet became the wife of Anasûrimbor Kellhus and Empress of the Three Seas, she was distraught to discover that the half- Dûnyain children she bore Kellhus were incapable of loving her. She used her authority to dispatch soldiers in search of her precious firstborn, Mimara. They eventually found her in a brothel, dressed like her mother due to their resemblence. The soldiers burned the brothel and surrounding slum and brought Mimara to the palace. However, Mimara bore a deep resentment towards the mother who had abandoned her; and the conflict between the two was deliberately agitated by Kelmomas , who resented Mimara as a competitor for Esmenet's affection. Mimara eventually fled the palace.

The Judging Eye

Mimara travels to see Drusas Achamian , who Esmenet once told her was her father, and demands that he teach her sorcery. While Achamian initially refuses, she attempts to persuade him by a number of means, including seducing him. When Achamian leaves his house to search for Ishuäl in the company of the Skin Eaters , Mimara secretly follows him. The Skin Eaters quickly discover her, and she joins the group. In the depths of the Black Halls of Cil-Aujas , Mimara looks at a Chorae with her Judging Eye, and it appears to change from a point of darkness to a point of light. She is subsequently able to use the altered Chorae to exorcise the spirit of Gin'yursis , the Wight-in-the-Mountain.

The White-Luck Warrior

Mimara, Achamian, and the remaining Skin Eaters continue their journey towards Sauglish , where a map to Ishuäl can be found. Mimara discovers that their group contains a skin-spy , Tsuör ; however, because it seems intent on assisting them in reaching their destination, she keeps it secret from Achamian. Tsuör tells Mimara that she is pregnant with Achamian's child, and that Nil'giccas plans to kill her when they reach Sauglish. During the journey, Mimara becomes addicted to the Nonman drug Qirri , as do all of her companions. When the group reaches the Library of Sauglish , infighting erupts, and Mimara, Achamian, and Sarl are left as the only survivors. Obtaining the map to Ishuäl, Mimara and Achamian leave Sarl behind and continue onwards by themselves. After fighting their way past hordes of Sranc , Mimara and Achamian finally reach Ishuäl, only to find it in ruins.

Trivia

When Mimara first appears in the series, her eyes are noted as being green , but in The Unholy Consult she is said to have brown eyes .

Mimara

Title(s): Princess-Imperial
Aliases: Anasûrimbor Mimara
Lived: 4095 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Gender: Female
Occupation: Prostitute Princess-Imperial
Relatives: Esmenet (mother) Kellhus (stepfather) Koringhus (stepbrother) Moënghus (adoptive half-brother) Kayûtas (half-brother) Theliopa (half-sister) Serwa (half-sister) Inrilatas (half-brother) Kelmomas (half-brother) Samarmas (half-brother) The Boy (step-nephew) Unnamed son Unnamed child
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before (mentioned) The Warrior-Prophet (mentioned) The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult

Mimara

Mimaripal
Mimaripal is a client baron of Musammu Chinjosa .

Mimaripal

Title(s): Baron
Lived: 4067 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Ainoni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Client baron to Musammu Chinjosa
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Mimaripal

Title(s): Baron
Lived: 4067 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Ainoni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Client baron to Musammu Chinjosa
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Mimomitta
Subject of a legend from ancient Kyranean lore.

Mimotil
Mimotil , known as Mimotil Cravenhearted , was a Nonman Qûya and member of the Consult .

What Came Before

Mimotil was the Bearer of the Copper Tree at the Battle of Pir Minginnial . He later joined the Consult under unknown circumstances.

The Unholy Consult

Mimotil was part of a group of Qûya that fought the mages of the Great Ordeal led by Anasûrimbor Serwa . He was killed during this confrontation .

Mimotil

Aliases: Mimotil Cravenhearted
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Qûya Member of the Consult
Books: The Unholy Consult

Mimotil

Aliases: Mimotil Cravenhearted
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Siölan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Qûya Member of the Consult
Books: The Unholy Consult

Mimotil Cravenhearted
One of the Cûnuroi working for the Consult, Bearer of the Copper Tree at Pir Minginnial.

Min-Uroikas
The Incû-Holoinas (“Ark-of-the-Skies” in Ihrimsû ) is the great space-faring vessel that brought the Inchoroi from the void and became the golden heart of Golgotterath . The Ark's most famed feature are the two massive Golden Horns - or the "Oars of the Ark" - that protrude above the ground. It is assumed that the Horns were located at the rear of the vessel when it was in flight. The Ark's crash-landing, in the event known as Arkfall was violent enough to damage one of the two horns, leaving one upright and the other slightly canted. Some speculate that the Ark itself once lived; the Inchoroi call themselves “Children of the Ark” and the most ancient Nonmen songs refer to them as “the Orphans.”

Size

The size of the Ark is heavily disputed by scholars, even in Far Antiquity , with accounts varying tremendously. According to one source, the Ark in totality is three thousand cubits in length, five hundred in width, and three hundred in depth. However, ancient Nonman records and the Isûphiryas place the size of the Upright Horn alone at over ten thousand Nonman cubits in length. Sohonc measurements, rooted in mathematics and the measurement of the Horn's shadow, give an allegedly far more accurate reading of 9,724 Umeritic cubits in length. This suggests that the Upright Horn alone may exceed 13,700 feet (or 2.6 miles) in height. The Nonman measurements would be double this. This could also suggest that the Ark is slowly sinking deeper into Eärwa during the millenia.

Minachasis
An Ainoni Imperial Apparati.

Minginnial
"Battle of Pir Minginnial" The Battle of Pir Minginnial or Second Battle of the Ark was a crucial engagement during the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars , marking the resumption of hostilities between Nonmen and Inchoroi following the long truce of the Inoculation . It is accounted the bloodiest battle and must grievous defeat in Nonman history, notable for the sheer number of great heroes who perished during its course, most notably Cû’jara-Cinmoi himself. For this reason the engagement is simply called The Battle in many Nonman traditions. The battle also saw the first deployment of Chorae , Sranc , Bashrags and Wracu in combat.

Prelude

Following the devastating Battle of Pir Pahal , the Inchoroi were forced to retreat to the Incû-Holoinas and dwelt there under siege for many decades. Eventually they sent their envoy Nin’janjin , the Traitor-King of Viri , to sue for peace with Cû’jara-Cinmoi, High King of Siöl . Cû’jara-Cinmoi, who was nearing the end of his life, was amazed to see that his old foe had not aged a day since Pir Pahal, and learned that the Inchoroi had a way of defeating death. Overruling the advice of his counsellors, the High King agreed to a truce as long as the Inchoroi shared the secret of immortality with the Nonmen. For more than a century the Inchoroi moved amongst the Nonman Mansions , dispensing the Inoculation. Only one Nonman King, Sin’niroiha of Nihrimsul and Ishoriöl , rejected the treatment. The Nonmen indeed became immortal and deathless. But then the Womb Plague began, slaying every single Nonman female. When the deaths began, the Inchoroi physicians appeared to work tirelessly to save them, but Cû’jara-Cinmoi became suspicious when reports reached him of Inchoroi evacuating Eärwa , falling back to the Incû-Holoinas. The Nonmen realised the depth of their betrayal when it became clear that their female kin were dying in approximately the same order they received the Inoculation. With the death of Hanalinqû , his own beloved, Cû’jara-Cinmoi called for the total extermination of the Inchoroi and made alliance with all of the High Kings, even his hated nemesis Sin’niroiha. They assembled potentially the largest Nonman army in history - thirty thousand souls - and marched on the Pit of Obscenities.

Course of the Battle

Cû’jara-Cinmoi deployed his army on the Inniür-Shigogli , the Black Furnace Plain immediately ringing Min-Uroikas and the Golden Horns of the Incû-Holoinas. He placed his wife's corpse before the unholy Ark (it is unclear in the Isûphiryas whether this was literal or figurative) and demanded that the Inchoroi answer his fury. In response the Inchoroi unleashed their creations: Sranc, Bashrags and Wracu in terrible numbers. The Nonmen were taken by surprise, believing that they would be fighting the much-reduced Inchoroi and perhaps a few traitor Nonmen, survivors of the first battle at Pir Pahal. They rallied swiftly, finding that the Sranc were easily dispatched by sinew and sorcery, the Bashrags by their finest Ishroi warriors and even the fearsome Wracu were checked by the most powerful Qûya . However, they had no answer for the Inchoroi and their spears of light . The Inchoroi floated above the battlefield, cloaked in the first Chorae (and thus rendered immune to Nonman sorcery) and sweeping the ground with their weapons, killing hundreds of Nonmen. Despite their dire predicament, the Nonmen rallied and slew many significant Inchoroi and their allies: Wutteät , the Father of Dragons and Vshikcrû , a powerful Inchoroi warrior were both killed, dismaying the foe (although Wutteät later re-emerged in history, suggesting a faulty record of events). Just when it seemed that the battle might turn, Nin'janjin slew Cû’jara-Cinmoi and beheaded him. The Copper Tree banner fell from the astonished grasp of the standard-bearer Mimotil (later called Cravenhearted for the loss of the banner) and fell into the hordes of teeming Sranc. The Nonmen almost broke, with the great heroes Gin’gûrima , Ingalira and Oirinas dying in short order, but Sin’niroiha was able to rally them and lead a fighting retreat into the Ring Mountains .

Outcome

The battle was accounted the greatest disaster in the history of Nonman civilisation, save for the Womb-Plague and Arkfall itself, but even so it fell far short of the complete victory the Inchoroi craved. Although their new weapons have performed well, they had fallen short of expectations and many of them had been destroyed: although the Sranc's prodigious breeding ability soon replenished their losses, the Bashrags and Wracu were harder to replace and the killed Inchoroi of course were irreplaceable. Although Cû’jara-Cinmoi and several significant Nonman heroes had been killed, they had also been replaced. Rather than the total rout the Inchoroi had expected, the Nonmen had withdrawn in good order (at least until they were out of danger) and remained capable of giving battle. Indeed, during the following five centuries the Inchoroi suffered numerous defeats, especially once their Tekne resources were exhausted and they lost the ability to create new weapons of light or weapon-races. The battle was the bloodiest fought on the Black Furnace Plain by Nonmen (although some hold that the later Battle of Isal’imial may have matched it), but it was later outclassed by several battles fought by men: the First Ordeal 's First Investiture of Golgotterath ended in a great rout and slaughter. Greater still was the end of the Second Investiture , when the Consult were able to trigger the event known as Initiation , the summoning of the No-God and the utter annihilation of the besieging army of Sag-Marmau .

Ministrate
The institution that oversees the Judges, the New Imperium's religious secret police.

Mipharal
One of the witches of the Swayal Sisterhood in the Great Ordeal, sister of Sapharal.

Mipharses
An Ainoni caste-noble who fell in love with Mimara during her second year at a brothel in Carythusal.

Miramis
"Nersei Miramis" Nersei Miramis is the wife of Nersei Proyas and the Queen of Conriya . She is also the niece of Saubon , though it is unknown which of Saubon's siblings is her parent.

What Came Before

At some point following the First Holy War , Proyas married Miramis. The two later had two children, Xinemus and Thaila .

The White-Luck Warrior

Proyas briefly thinks of home and of his wife and children. He reflects on how Miramis "still wept whenever he left her bed for the wide world" . After Fanayal 's army attacks Aöknyssus , Miramis and her children are removed to Attrempus for their safety . Following Maithanet 's coup, Esmenet thinks of fleeing to Aöknyssus and considers that Miramis would at least give her sanctuary .

The Unholy Consult

After Proyas is denounced as a traitor and strung up to be slowly left to die, Kellhus brings up Miramis, Xinemus and Thaila as lives that will be saved by his decision to set up Proyas as an agent of the Consult .

Nersei Miramis

Title(s): Queen
Lived: 4090 - present
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Female
Occupation: Queen of Conriya
Relatives: Eryeat (grandfather) Narnol (uncle or father) Saubon (uncle) Asilda (aunt or mother) Eukernas II (father-in-law) Thaila (mother-in-law) Athjeäri (brother or cousin) Agabon (brother or cousin) Proyas (husband) Tirummas (brother-in-law) Xinemus (son) Thaila (daughter)
Books: The White-Luck Warrior (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Nersei Miramis

Mirathais
Ordealman, Conriyan chronicler.

Mirinqû
The wife of Harapior.

Mirshoa
"Nemukus Mirshoa" Ordealman, vassal of Nurbanu Soter and nephew to the Baron of Nemuk.

Mirûnwe
One of the witches of the Swayal Sisterhood in the Great Ordeal.

Misarat
Misarat is an immense Kianene fortress located in Eshgarnea on the northwestern frontier of Eumarna .

Misariccas
Misariccas was a Nonmen Ishroi who lived during the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars . After their victory over the Inchoroi , the Nonmen attempted in vain to destroy the Incû-Holoinas . Having learned of the Golden Court and the Inverse Fire from Nin'janjin , Nil'giccas sent three to investigate it. Being famed for his valor, Misariccas was selected along with Runidil and Cet'ingira . However, after gazing upon the Inverse Fire and experiencing Damnation, Misariccas and Runidil fled shrieking, and Cet'ingira counselled Nil'giccas to have them executed .

Misariccas

Lived: ? - ?
Race: Nonmen
Gender: Male
Occupation: Ishroi
Books: The False Sun (mentioned only)

Misariccas

Lived: ? - ?
Race: Nonmen
Gender: Male
Occupation: Ishroi
Books: The False Sun (mentioned only)

Mithoser II
God-King of Shigek who was decisively defeated by the Kyraneans at Narakit, leading to Shigek beginning its long tenure as a tributary to greater powers.

Mittades
The captain of the Bloody Picks.

Mi’punial
One of the great Hûlya poets of Siöl.

mi
-a syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of c, i. e., to e, in european solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the american system.

miamis
-a tribe of indians that formerly occupied the country between the wabash and maumee rivers.

miargyrite
-a mineral of an iron
-black color, and very sectile, consisting principally of sulphur, antimony, and silver.

mias
-the orang
-outang.

miascite
-a granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elaeolite, and sodalite.

miasm
-miasma.

miasma
-infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

miasmal
-containing miasma; miasmatic.

miasmata
-of miasma

miasmatic
-alt. of miasmatical

miasmatical
-containing, or relating to, miasma; caused by miasma; as, miasmatic diseases.

miasmatist
-one who has made a special study of miasma.

miasmology
-that department of medical science which treats of miasma.

miaul
-to cry as a cat; to mew; to caterwaul.
-the crying of a cat.

miauled
-of miaul

miauling
-of miaul

mica
-the name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. they differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. the transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. formerly called also cat
-silver, and glimmer.

micaceo
-calcareous
-partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime;
-- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.

micaceous
-pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica.

mice
-pl of mouse.
-of mouse

micella
-a theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.

micellae
-of micella

mich
-alt. of miche

michaelmas
-the feat of the archangel michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of september. hence, colloquially, autumn.

miche
-to lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly.

micher
-one who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc.

michery
-theft; cheating.

miching
-hiding; skulking; cowardly.

mickle
-much; great.

micmacs
-a tribe of indians inhabiting nova scotia and new brunswick.

mico
-a small south american monkey (mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. the name was originally applied to an albino variety.

micr
-
-a combining form
-small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope.
-a millionth part of; as, microfarad, microohm, micrometer.

micracoustic
-same as microustic.

micraster
-a genus of sea urchins, similar to spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation;
-- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

micrencephalous
-having a small brain.

micro
-
-alt. of micr
-

micro
-chemical
-of or pertaining to micro
-chemistry; as, a micro
-chemical test.

micro
-chemistry
-the application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy;
-- distinguished from macro
-chemistry.

micro
-geological
-of or pertaining to micro
-geology.

micro
-geology
-the part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope.

microampere
-one of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampere.

microbacteria
-in the classification of cohn, one of the four tribes of bacteria.

microbe
-alt. of microbion

microbian
-of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

microbic
-of or pertaining to a microbe.

microbicide
-any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

microbion
-a microscopic organism;
-- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.

microcephalic
-alt. of microcephalous

microcephalous
-having a small head; having the cranial cavity small;
-- opposed to megacephalic.

microchronometer
-a chronoscope.

microcline
-a mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.

micrococcal
-of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci.

micrococci
-of micrococcus

micrococcus
-a genus of spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb
-bells (diplococcus), all without the power of motion. see illust. of ascoccus.

microcosm
-a little world; a miniature universe. hence (so called by paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. opposed to macrocosm.

microcosmic
-alt. of microcosmical

microcosmical
-of or pertaining to the microcosm.

microcosmography
-description of man as a microcosm.

microcoulomb
-a measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.

microcoustic
-pertaining, or suited, to the audition of small sounds; fitted to assist hearing.
-an instrument for making faint sounds audible, as to a partially deaf person.

microcrith
-the weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. see crith.

microcrystalline
-crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.

microcyte
-one of the elementary granules found in blood. they are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anaemia.

microdont
-having small teeth.

microfarad
-the millionth part of a farad.

microform
-a microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.

micrograph
-an instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

micrographic
-of or pertaining to micrography.

micrography
-the description of microscopic objects.

microhm
-the millionth part of an ohm.

microlepidoptera
-a tribe of lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

microlestes
-an extinct genus of small triassic mammals, the oldest yet found in european strata.

microlite
-a rare mineral of resinous luster and high specific gravity. it is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute.
-a minute inclosed crystal, often observed when minerals or rocks are examined in thin sections under the microscope.

microlith
-same as microlite, 2.

microlithic
-formed of small stones.

micrologic
-alt. of micrological

micrological
-of or pertaining to micrology; very minute; as, micrologic examination.

micrology
-that part of science which treats of microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation.
-attention to petty items or differences.

micromere
-one of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.

micrometer
-an instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. the measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass.

micrometric
-alt. of micrometrical

micrometrical
-belonging to micrometry; made by the micrometer.

micrometry
-the art of measuring with a micrometer.

micromillimeter
-the millionth part of a meter.

micron
-a measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.

micronesian
-of or pertaining to micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the pacific ocean, embracing the marshall and gilbert groups, the ladrones, the carolines, etc.

micronesians
-a dark race inhabiting the micronesian islands. they are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from polynesians and papuans.

micronometer
-an instrument for noting minute portions of time.

microorganism
-any microscopic form of life;
-- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.

micropantograph
-a kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.

micropegmatite
-a rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).

microphone
-an instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. it produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.

microphonics
-the science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.

microphonous
-serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.

microphotograph
-a microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.
-an enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.

microphotography
-the art of making microphotographs.

microphthalmia
-alt. of microphthalmy

microphthalmy
-an unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.

microphyllous
-small
-leaved.

microphytal
-pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.

microphyte
-a very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.

micropyle
-an opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.
-an opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule.

microscopal
-pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope.

microscope
-an optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.

microscopial
-microscopic.

microscopic
-alt. of microscopical

microscopical
-of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation.
-able to see extremely minute objects.
-very small; visible only by the aid of a microscope; as, a microscopic insect.

microscopically
-by the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.

microscopist
-one skilled in, or given to, microscopy.

microscopy
-the use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.

microseme
-having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely;
-- opposed to megaseme.

microspectroscope
-a spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.

microsporangium
-a sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. cf. macrosporangium.

microspore
-one of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as selaginella and isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. cf. macrospore.

microsporic
-of or pertaining to microspores.

microsthene
-one of a group of mammals having a small size as a typical characteristic. it includes the lower orders, as the insectivora, cheiroptera, rodentia, and edentata.

microsthenic
-having a typically small size; of or pertaining to the microsthenes.

microtasimeter
-a tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. see tasimeter.

microtome
-an instrument for making very thin sections for microscopical examination.

microtomist
-one who is skilled in or practices microtomy.

microtomy
-the art of using the microtome; investigation carried on with the microtome.

microvolt
-a measure of electro
-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.

microweber
-the millionth part of one weber.

microzoa
-the infusoria.

microzoospore
-a small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae.

microzyme
-a microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.

micturition
-the act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.

mid
-denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.
-occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.
-made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low;
-- said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld). see guide to pronunciation, // 10, 11.
-middle.
-see amid.

mid sea
-alt. of mid
-sea

mid
-sea
-the middle part of the sea or ocean.

mida
-the larva of the bean fly.

midas
-a genus of longeared south american monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. see marmoset.

midas's ear
-a pulmonate mollusk (auricula, / ellobium, aurismidae);
-- so called from resemblance to a human ear.

midbrain
-the middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. see brain.

midday
-the middle part of the day; noon.
-of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.

midden
-a dunghill.
-an accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes,
-- as on the shores of the baltic sea and in many other places. see kitchen middens.

midden crow
-the common european crow.

middest
-situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost.
-midst; middle.

middies
-of middy

midding
-same as midden.

middle
-equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
-intermediate; intervening.
-the point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion
-the waist.

middle
-age
-of or pertaining to the middle ages; mediaeval.

middle
-aged
-being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.

middle
-earth
-the world, considered as lying between heaven and hell.

middle
-ground
-that part of a picture between the foreground and the background.

middleman
-an agent between two parties; a broker; a go
-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.
-a person of intermediate rank; a commoner.
-the man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.

middlemen
-of middleman

middlemost
-being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.

middler
-one of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.

middling
-of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.

middlings
-a combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting;
-- formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.
-in the southern and western parts of the united states, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon;
-- called also middles.

middy
-a colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.

midfeather
-a vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.
-a support for the center of a tunnel.

midgard
-the middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.

midge
-any one of many small, delicate, long
-legged flies of the chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. their larvae are usually aquatic.
-a very small fly, abundant in many parts of the united states and canada, noted for the irritating quality of its bite.

midget
-a minute bloodsucking fly.
-a very diminutive person.

midgut
-the middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.

midheaven
-the midst or middle of heaven or the sky.
-the meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian.

midland
-being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.
-surrounded by the land; mediterranean.
-the interior or central region of a country;
-- usually in the plural.

midmain
-the middle part of the main or sea.

midmost
-middle; middlemost.

midnight
-the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
-being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom.

midrash
-a talmudic exposition of the hebrew law, or of some part of it.

midrashim
-of midrash

midrashoth
-of midrash

midrib
-a continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.

midriff
-see diaphragm, n., 2.

midship
-of or pertaining to, or being in, the middle of a ship.

midshipman
-formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter
-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.
-in the english naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.
-in the united states navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the naval academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign.
-an american marine fish of the genus porichthys, allied to the toadfish.

midshipmen
-of midshipman

midships
-in the middle of a ship;
-- properly amidships.
-the timbers at the broadest part of the vessel.

midst
-the interior or central part or place; the middle;
-- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.
-hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.
-in the midst of; amidst.
-in the middle.

midsummer
-the middle of summer.

midward
-situated in the middle.
-in or toward the midst.

midway
-the middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course.
-being in the middle of the way or distance; as, the midway air.
-in the middle of the way or distance; half way.

midweek
-the middle of the week. also used adjectively.

midwife
-a woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.
-to assist in childbirth.
-to perform the office of midwife.

midwifery
-the art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.
-assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production.

midwinter
-the middle of winter.

midwive
-to midwife.

midwives
-of midwife

mien
-aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.

miff
-a petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense.
-to offend slightly.

might
-of may
-imp. of may.
-force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity.

mightful
-mighty.

mighties
-of mighty

mightily
-in a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully.
-to a great degree; very much.

mightiness
-the quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity.
-highness; excellency;
-- with a possessive pronoun, a title of dignity; as, their high mightinesses.

mightless
-without; weak.

mighty
-possessing might; having great power or authority.
-accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
-denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc.
-a warrior of great force and courage.
-in a great degree; very.

migniard
-soft; dainty.

migniardise
-delicate fondling.

mignon
-see 3d minion.
-to flatter.

mignonette
-a plant (reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange
-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. in africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.

migo
-to go astray.

migraine
-same as megrim.

migrant
-migratory.
-a migratory bird or other animal.

migrate
-to remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the moors who migrated from africa into spain; to migrate to the west.
-to pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding;
-- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

migrated
-of migrate

migrating
-of migrate

migration
-the act of migrating.

migratory
-removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.
-hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a migratory life.

mikado
-the popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of japan.

mikmaks
-same as micmacs.

milage
-same as mileage.

milanese
-of or pertaining to milan in italy, or to its inhabitants.
-a native or inhabitant of milan; people of milan.

milch
-giving milk;
-- now applied only to beasts.
-tender; pitiful; weeping.

mild
-gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality;
-- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.;
-- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

milden
-to make mild, or milder.

mildew
-a growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
-to taint with mildew.
-to become tainted with mildew.

mildewed
-of mildew

mildewing
-of mildew

mildly
-in a mild manner.

mildness
-the quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

mile
-a certain measure of distance, being equivalent in england and the united states to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

mileage
-an allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.
-aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc.

milen
-see maslin.

milepost
-a post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

milesian
-of or pertaining to miletus, a city of asia minor, or to its inhabitants.
-descended from king milesius of spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of king milesius; hence, irish.
-a native or inhabitant of miletus.
-a native or inhabitant of ireland.

milestone
-a stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

milfoil
-a common composite herb (achillea millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.

miliaria
-a fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.

miliary
-like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.
-accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.
-small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of echini.
-one of the small tubercles of echini.

milice
-militia.

miliola
-a genus of foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

miliolite
-a fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus miliola.
-the same milliolitic.

miliolitic
-of or pertaining to the genus miliola; containing miliolites.

militancy
-the state of being militant; warfare.
-a military spirit or system; militarism.

militant
-engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.

militar
-military.

militarily
-in a military manner.

militarism
-a military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
-the spirit and traditions of military life.

militarist
-a military man.

military
-of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
-performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.
-the whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.

militate
-to make war; to fight; to contend;
-- usually followed by against and with.

militated
-of militate

militating
-of militate

militia
-in the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service; specifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in emergencies.
-military service; warfare.

militiaman
-one who belongs to the militia.

militiamen
-of militiaman

militiate
-to carry on, or prepare for, war.

milk
-a white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.
-a kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. see latex.
-an emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
-the ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
-to draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
-to draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
-to draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
-to draw or to yield milk.

milk vetch
-a leguminous herb (astragalus glycyphyllos) of europe and asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.

milk
-livered
-white
-livered; cowardly; timorous.

milked
-of milk

milken
-consisting of milk.

milker
-one who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
-a cow or other animal that gives milk.

milkful
-full of milk; abounding with food.

milkily
-in a milky manner.

milkiness
-state or quality of being milky.

milking
-of milk

milkmaid
-a woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.

milkman
-a man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.

milkmen
-of milkman

milksop
-a piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak
-minded person.

milkweed
-any plant of the genera asclepias and acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. the name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

milkwort
-a genus of plants (polygala) of many species. the common european p. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

milky
-consisting of, or containing, milk.
-like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "milky juice."
-yielding milk.
-mild; tame; spiritless.

mill
-a money of account of the united states, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
-a machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
-a machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
-a machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
-a common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
-a building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
-a hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
-an excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
-a passage underground through which ore is shot.
-a milling cutter. see illust. under milling.
-a pugilistic.
-to reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
-to shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
-to make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
-to pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
-to beat with the fists.
-to roll into bars, as steel.
-to swim under water;
-- said of air
-breathing creatures.

mill
-cake
-the incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

mill
-sixpence
-a milled sixpence;
-- the sixpence being one of the first english coins milled (1561).

millboard
-a kind of stout pasteboard.

milldam
-a dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

milled
-of mill
-having been subjected to some process of milling.

millefiore glass
-slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass;
-- used for paperweights and other small articles.

millenarian
-consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the millenarians.
-one who believes that christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a chiliast.

millenarianism
-alt. of millenarism

millenarism
-the doctrine of millenarians.

millenary
-consisting of a thousand; millennial.
-the space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a millenarian.

millennial
-of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.

millennialism
-alt. of millenniarism

millennialist
-one who believes that christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of christianity for a long period.

millenniarism
-belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.

millennist
-one who believes in the millennium.

millennium
-a thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. some believe that, during this period, christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

milleped
-a myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.

millepora
-a genus of hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

millepore
-any coral of the genus millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. the animals are hydroids, not anthozoa. see hydrocorallia.

milleporite
-a fossil millepore.

miller
-one who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
-a milling machine.
-a moth or lepidopterous insect;
-- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. called also moth miller.
-the eagle ray.
-the hen harrier.

millerite
-a believer in the doctrine of william miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of christ were at hand.
-a sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow;
-- sometimes called hair pyrites.

millesimal
-thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.

millet
-the name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. the common millets of germany and southern europe are panicum miliaceum, and setaria italica.

milli
-
-a prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampere.

milliampere
-the thousandth part of one ampere.

milliard
-a thousand millions;
-- called also billion. see billion.

milliaries
-of milliary

milliary
-of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.
-a milestone.

millier
-a weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.

millifold
-thousandfold.

milligram
-alt. of milligramme

milligramme
-a measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.

milliliter
-alt. of millilitre

millilitre
-a measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. it is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an english cubic inch, or to .0338 of an american fluid ounce.

millimeter
-alt. of millimetre

millimetre
-a lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. see 3d meter.

milliner
-formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.
-a person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.

millinery
-the articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
-the business of work of a milliner.

millinet
-a stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

milling
-of mill
-the act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. see mill.

million
-the number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand,
-- written 1,000, 000. see the note under hundred.
-a very great number; an indefinitely large number.
-the mass of common people;
-- with the article the.

millionaire
-one whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more.

millionairess
-a woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire.

millionary
-of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits.

millioned
-multiplied by millions; innumerable.

millionnaire
-millionaire.

millionth
-being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.
-the quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.

milliped
-the same milleped.

millistere
-a liter, or cubic decimeter.

milliweber
-the thousandth part of one weber.

millrea
-alt. of millreis

millree
-alt. of millreis

millreis
-see milreis.

millrind
-alt. of millrynd

millrynd
-a figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

millstone
-one of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

millwork
-the shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills.
-the business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.

millwright
-a mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

milreis
-a portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the united states at one dollar and eight cents; also, a brazilian money of account rated at fifty
-four cents and six mills.

milt
-the spleen.
-the spermatic fluid of fishes.
-the testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.
-to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

milter
-a male fish.

miltonian
-miltonic.

miltonic
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, milton, or his writings; as, miltonic prose.

miltwaste
-a small european fern (asplenium ceterach) formerly used in medicine.

milvine
-of or resembling birds of the kite kind.
-a bird related to the kite.

milvus
-a genus of raptorial birds, including the european kite.

mime
-a kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
-an actor in such representations.
-to mimic.

mimeograph
-an autographic stencil copying device invented by edison.

mimesis
-imitation; mimicry.

mimetene
-see mimetite.

mimetic
-alt. of mimetical

mimetical
-apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
-characterized by mimicry;
-- applied to animals and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. see mimicry.

mimetism
-same as mimicry.

mimetite
-a mineral occurring in pale yellow or brownish hexagonal crystals. it is an arseniate of lead.

mimic
-alt. of mimical
-one who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.
-to imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.
-to assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

mimical
-imitative; mimetic.
-consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures.
-imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms;
-- applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

mimically
-in an imitative manner.

mimicked
-of mimic

mimicker
-one who mimics; a mimic.
-an animal which imitates something else, in form or habits.

mimicking
-of mimic

mimicry
-the act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.
-protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live,
-- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism.

mimographer
-a writer of mimes.

mimosa
-a genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (mimosa sensitiva, and m. pudica).

mimotannic
-pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannin or tannic acid found in acacia, mimosa, etc.

mina
-an ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. the attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.
-see myna.

minable
-such as can be mined; as, minable earth.

minaceous
-of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.

minacious
-threatening; menacing.

minacity
-disposition to threaten.

minae
-of mina

minaret
-a slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.

minargent
-an alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium;
-- used by jewelers.

minas
-of mina

minatorially
-alt. of minatorily

minatorily
-in a minatory manner; with threats.

minatory
-threatening; menacing.

minaul
-same as manul.

mince
-to cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
-to suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
-to affect; to make a parade of.
-to walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
-to act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
-a short, precise step; an affected manner.

mince pie
-a pie made of mince
-meat.

mince
-meat
-minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added;
-- used in making mince pie.

minced
-of mince

mincer
-one who minces.

mincing
-that minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.

mincingly
-in a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.

mind
-the intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul;
-- often in distinction from the body.
-the state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) opinion; judgment; belief.
-choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.
-courage; spirit.
-memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.
-to fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.
-to occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business.
-to obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.
-to have in mind; to purpose.
-to put in mind; to remind.
-to give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.

minded
-of mind
-disposed; inclined; having a mind.

minder
-one who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
-one to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person.

mindful
-bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.

minding
-of mind
-regard; mindfulness.

mindless
-not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
-unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.

mine
-see mien.
-belonging to me; my. used as a pronominal to me; my. used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "vengeance is mine; i will repay." rom. xii. 19. also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
-to dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
-to form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.
-to dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
-to dig into, for ore or metal.
-to get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
-a subterranean cavity or passage
-a pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging;
-- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
-a cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
-any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
-fig.: a rich source of wealth or other good.

mined
-of mine

miner
-one who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
-any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. they are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
-the chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of australia (myzantha garrula).

mineral
-an inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
-a mine.
-anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
-of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
-impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.

mineralist
-one versed in minerals; mineralogist.

mineralization
-the process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
-the act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.
-the conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.

mineralize
-to transform into a mineral.
-to impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
-to go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.

mineralized
-of mineralize

mineralizer
-an element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.

mineralizing
-of mineralize

mineralogical
-of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.

mineralogically
-according to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.

mineralogies
-of mineralogy

mineralogist
-one versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
-a carrier shell (phorus).

mineralogize
-to study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.

mineralogy
-the science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.
-a treatise or book on this science.

minerva
-the goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving;
-- identified with the grecian pallas athene.

minette
-the smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

minever
-same as miniver.

minge
-to mingle; to mix.
-a small biting fly; a midge.

minging
-of mince

mingle
-to mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
-to associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
-to deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
-to put together; to join.
-to make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
-to become mixed or blended.
-a mixture.

mingle
-mangle
-to mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of.
-a hotchpotch.

mingleable
-that can be mingled.

mingled
-of mingle

mingledly
-confusedly.

minglement
-the act of mingling, or the state of being mixed.

mingler
-one who mingles.

mingling
-of mingle

minglingly
-in a mingling manner.

miniard
-migniard.

miniardize
-to render delicate or dainty.

miniate
-to paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.
-of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.

miniated
-of miniate

miniating
-of miniate

miniature
-originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
-greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
-lettering in red; rubric distinction.
-a particular feature or trait.
-being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.
-to represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.

miniaturist
-a painter of miniatures.

minibus
-a kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.

minie ball
-a conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.

minie rifle
-a rifle adapted to minie balls.

minified
-of minify

minify
-to make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.
-to degrade by speech or action.

minifying
-of minify

minikin
-a little darling; a favorite; a minion.
-a little pin.
-small; diminutive.

minim
-anything very minute; as, the minims of existence;
-- applied to animalcula; and the like.
-the smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.
-a small fish; a minnow.
-a little man or being; a dwarf.
-one of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by st. francis of paola.
-a time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.
-a short poetical encomium.
-minute.

minima
-of minimum

miniment
-a trifle; a trinket; a token.

minimi
-of minimus

minimization
-the act or process of minimizing.

minimize
-to reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.

minimized
-of minimize

minimizimg
-of minimize

minimum
-the least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence;
-- opposed to maximum.

minimus
-a being of the smallest size.
-the little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.

mining
-of mine
-the act or business of making mines or of working them.
-of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.

minion
-minimum.
-a loved one; one highly esteemed and favored;
-- in a good sense.
-an obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
-a small kind of type, in size between brevier and nonpareil.
-an ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches.
-fine; trim; dainty.

minionette
-small; delicate.
-a size of type between nonpareil and minion;
-- used in ornamental borders, etc.

minioning
-kind treatment.

minionize
-to flavor.

minionlike
-alt. of minionly

minionly
-like a minion; daintily.

minionship
-state of being a minion.

minious
-of the color of red or vermilion.

minish
-to diminish; to lessen.

minishment
-the act of diminishing, or the state of being diminished; diminution.

minister
-a servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
-an officer of justice.
-one to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.
-a representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.
-one who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.
-to furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.
-to act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.
-to supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.

ministered
-of minister

ministerial
-of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.
-of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal.
-tending to advance or promote; contributive.

ministerialist
-a supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.

ministerially
-in a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.

ministering
-of minister

ministery
-see ministry.

ministracy
-ministration.

ministral
-ministerial.

ministrant
-performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate.
-one who ministers.

ministration
-the act of ministering; service; ministry.

ministrative
-serving to aid; ministering.

ministress
-a woman who ministers.

ministry
-the act of ministering; ministration; service.
-agency; instrumentality.
-the office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.
-the body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.
-administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of pitt.

ministryship
-the office of a minister.

minium
-a heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, pb3o4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. it is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. called also red lead.

miniver
-a fur esteemed in the middle ages as a part of costume. it is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals.

minivet
-a singing bird of india of the family campephagidae.

mink
-a carnivorous mammal of the genus putorius, allied to the weasel. the european mink is putorius lutreola. the common american mink (p. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. its fur is highly valued. called also minx, nurik, and vison.

minnesinger
-a love
-singer; specifically, one of a class of german poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. they were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

minnow
-a small european fresh
-water cyprinoid fish (phoxinus laevis, formerly leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds;
-- called also minim and minny. the name is also applied to several allied american species, of the genera phoxinus, notropis, or minnilus, and rhinichthys.
-any of numerous small american cyprinodont fishes of the genus fundulus, and related genera. they live both in fresh and in salt water. called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.

minny
-a minnow.

mino bird
-an asiatic bird (gracula musica), allied to the starlings. it is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. it is often tamed and taught to pronounce words.

minor
-inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
-less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
-a person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in england and the united states, one under twenty
-one years of age.
-the minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. it is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
-a minorite; a franciscan friar.

minorate
-to diminish.

minoration
-a diminution.

minoress
-see franciscan nuns, under franciscan, a.

minorite
-a franciscan friar.

minorities
-of minority

minority
-the state of being a minor, or under age.
-state of being less or small.
-the smaller number;
-- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.

minos
-a king and lawgiver of crete, fabled to be the son of jupiter and europa. after death he was made a judge in the lower regions.

minotaur
-a fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by daedalus in crete.

minow
-see minnow.

minster
-a church of a monastery. the name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as beverly minster, southwell minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.

minstrel
-in the middle ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.

minstrelsy
-the arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.
-musical instruments.
-a collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs.

mint
-the name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. see mentha.
-a place where money is coined by public authority.
-any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
-to make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
-to invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

mint
-master
-the master or superintendent of a mint. also used figuratively.

mintage
-the coin, or other production, made in a mint.
-the duty paid to the mint for coining.

minted
-of mint

minter
-one who mints.

minting
-of mint

mintman
-one skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.

mintmen
-of mintman

minuend
-the number from which another number is to be subtracted.

minuet
-a slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.
-a tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3
-4, sometimes 3
-8, measure.

minum
-a small kind of printing type; minion.
-a minim.

minus
-less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

minuscule
-any very small, minute object.
-a small roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters.
-of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules.

minutary
-pertaining to, or consisting of, minutes.

minute
-the sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
-the sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (marked thus ('); as, 10¡ 20').
-a nautical or a geographic mile.
-a coin; a half farthing.
-a very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
-a point of time; a moment.
-the memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.
-a fixed part of a module. see module.
-of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
-to set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
-very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
-attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.

minute
-jack
-a figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks;
-- called also jack of the clock house.
-a timeserver; an inconstant person.

minutely
-in a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
-happening every minute; continuing; unceasing.
-at intervals of a minute; very often and regularly.

minuteman
-a militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice;
-- a term used in the american revolution.

minutemen
-of minuteman

minuteness
-the quality of being minute.

minutia
-a minute particular; a small or minor detail;
-- used chiefly in the plural.

minutiae
-of minutia

minx
-a pert or a wanton girl.
-a she puppy; a pet dog.
-the mink;
-- called also minx otter.

miny
-abounding with mines; like a mine.

miocene
-of or pertaining to the middle division of the tertiary.
-the miocene period. see chart of geology.

miohippus
-an extinct miocene mammal of the horse family, closely related to the genus anhithecrium, and having three usable hoofs on each foot.

miquelet
-an irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

mir
-a russian village community.
-same as emir.

mira
-a remarkable variable star in the constellation cetus (/ ceti).

mirabilaries
-of mirabilary

mirabilary
-one who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders.

mirabilis
-a genus of plants. see four
-o'clock.

mirabilite
-native sodium sulphate; glauber's salt.

mirable
-wonderful; admirable.

miracle
-a wonder or wonderful thing.
-specifically: an event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed.
-a miracle play.
-a story or legend abounding in miracles.
-to make wonderful.

miraculize
-to cause to seem to be a miracle.

miraculous
-of the nature of a miracle; performed by supernatural power; effected by the direct agency of almighty power, and not by natural causes.
-supernatural; wonderful.
-wonder
-working.

mirador
-same as belvedere.

mirage
-an optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. the reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. when the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. the fata morgana and looming are species of mirage.

mirbane
-see nitrobenzene.

mire
-an ant.
-deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
-to cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
-to soil with mud or foul matter.
-to stick in mire.

mired
-of mire

mirific
-alt. of mirifical

mirifical
-working wonders; wonderful.

mirificent
-wonderful.

miriness
-the quality of being miry.

miring
-of mire

mirk
-dark; gloomy; murky.
-darkness; gloom; murk.

mirksome
-dark; gloomy; murky.

mirky
-dark; gloomy. see murky.

mirror
-a looking
-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.
-that which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.
-see speculum.
-to reflect, as in a mirror.

mirrored
-of mirror

mirroring
-of mirror

mirth
-merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.
-that which causes merriment.

mirthful
-full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.
-indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face.

mirthless
-without mirth.

miry
-abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

mirza
-the common title of honor in persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. when appended to the surname, it signifies prince.

mis
-wrong; amiss.

mis
-
-a prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

misacceptation
-wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.

misaccompt
-to account or reckon wrongly.

misadjust
-to adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment.

misadjustment
-wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

misadventure
-mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

misadventured
-unfortunate.

misadventurous
-unfortunate.

misadvertence
-inadvertence.

misadvice
-bad advice.

misadvise
-to give bad counsel to.

misadvised
-ill advised.

misaffect
-to dislike.

misaffected
-ill disposed.

misaffection
-an evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected.

misaffirm
-to affirm incorrectly.

misaimed
-not rightly aimed.

misallegation
-a erroneous statement or allegation.

misallege
-to state erroneously.

misalliance
-a marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.

misallied
-wrongly allied or associated.

misallotment
-a wrong allotment.

misalter
-to alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse.

misanthrope
-a hater of mankind; a misanthropist.

misanthropic
-alt. of misanthropical

misanthropical
-hating or disliking mankind.

misanthropist
-a misanthrope.

misanthropos
-a misanthrope.

misanthropy
-hatred of, or dislike to, mankind;
-- opposed to philanthropy.

misapplication
-a wrong application.

misapplied
-of misapply

misapply
-to apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.

misapplying
-of misapply

misappreciated
-improperly appreciated.

misapprehend
-to take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.

misapprehension
-a mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

misapprehensively
-by, or with, misapprehension.

misappropriate
-to appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.

misappropriation
-wrong appropriation; wrongful use.

misarcribe
-to ascribe wrongly.

misarrange
-to place in a wrong order, or improper manner.

misarranged
-of misarrange

misarrangement
-wrong arrangement.

misarranging
-of misarrange

misassay
-to assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully.

misassign
-to assign wrongly.

misattend
-to misunderstand; to disregard.

misaventure
-misadventure.

misavize
-to misadvise.

misbear
-to carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave.

misbecome
-not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to.

misbecoming
-unbecoming.

misbede
-to wrong; to do injury to.

misbefitting
-no befitting.

misbegot
-alt. of misbegotten

misbegotten
-unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious.

misbehave
-to behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly;
-- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

misbehaved
-of misbehave
-guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude.

misbehaving
-of misbehave

misbehavior
-improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.

misbelief
-erroneous or false belief.

misbelieve
-to believe erroneously, or in a false religion.

misbeliever
-one who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.

misbeseem
-to suit ill.

misbestow
-to bestow improperly.

misbestowal
-the act of misbestowing.

misbileve
-misbelief; unbelief; suspicion.

misbode
-of misbede
-imp. of misbede.

misboden
-of misbede
-p. p. of misbede.

misborn
-born to misfortune.

miscalculate
-to calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.

miscall
-to call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
-to call by a bad name; to abuse.

miscarriage
-unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
-ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.
-the act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.

miscarriageable
-capable of miscarrying; liable to fail.

miscarried
-of miscarry

miscarry
-to carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.
-to bring forth young before the proper time.

miscarrying
-of miscarry

miscast
-to cast or reckon wrongly.
-an erroneous cast or reckoning.

miscegenation
-a mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

miscellanarian
-of or pertaining to miscellanies.
-a writer of miscellanies.

miscellane
-a mixture of two or more sorts of grain;
-- now called maslin and meslin.

miscellanea
-a collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.

miscellaneous
-mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.

miscellanies
-of miscellany

miscellanist
-a writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian.

miscellany
-a mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.
-miscellaneous; heterogeneous.

miscensure
-to misjudge.
-erroneous judgment.

mischance
-ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.
-to happen by mischance.

mischanceful
-unlucky.

mischaracterize
-to characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.

mischarge
-to charge erroneously, as in account.
-a mistake in charging.

mischief
-harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport.
-cause of trouble or vexation; trouble.
-to do harm to.

mischief
-maker
-one who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.

mischief
-making
-causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels.
-the act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.

mischiefable
-mischievous.

mischiefful
-mischievous.

mischievous
-causing mischief; harmful; hurtful;
-- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.

mischna
-see mishna.

mischnic
-see mishnic.

mischoose
-to choose wrongly.
-to make a wrong choice.

mischoosing
-of mischoose

mischose
-of mischoose

mischosen
-of mischoose

mischristen
-to christen wrongly.

miscibility
-capability of being mixed.

miscible
-capable of being mixed; mixable; as, water and alcohol are miscible in all proportions.

miscitation
-erroneous citation.

miscite
-to cite erroneously.

misclaim
-a mistaken claim.

miscognizant
-not cognizant; ignorant; not knowing.

miscognize
-to fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.

miscollocation
-wrong collocation.

miscolor
-to give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts.

miscomfort
-discomfort.

miscomprehend
-to get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.

miscomputation
-erroneous computation; false reckoning.

miscompute
-to compute erroneously.

misconceit
-misconception.

misconceive
-to conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.

misconceived
-of misconceive

misconceiver
-one who misconceives.

misconceiving
-of misconceive

misconception
-erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.

misconclusion
-an erroneous inference or conclusion.

misconduct
-wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.
-to conduct amiss; to mismanage.
-to behave amiss.

misconfident
-having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.

misconjecture
-a wrong conjecture or guess.
-to conjecture wrongly.

misconsecrate
-to consecrate amiss.

misconsecration
-wrong consecration.

misconsequence
-a wrong consequence; a false deduction.

misconstruable
-such as can be misconstrued, as language or conduct.

misconstruct
-to construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.

misconstruction
-erroneous construction; wrong interpretation.

misconstrue
-to construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously.

misconstrued
-of misconstrue

misconstruer
-one who misconstrues.

misconstruing
-of misconstrue

miscontent
-discontent.

miscontinuance
-discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process.

miscopy
-to copy amiss.
-a mistake in copying.

miscorrect
-to fail or err in attempting to correct.

miscounsel
-to counsel or advise wrongly.

miscount
-to count erroneously.
-an erroneous counting.

miscovet
-to covet wrongfully.

miscreance
-alt. of miscreancy

miscreancy
-the quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.

miscreant
-one who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.
-one not restrained by christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch.
-holding a false religious faith.
-destitute of conscience; unscrupulous.

miscreate
-miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles.
-to create badly or amiss.

miscreated
-formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.

miscreative
-creating amiss.

miscredent
-a miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine.

miscredulity
-wrong credulity or belief; misbelief.

miscue
-a false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.

misdate
-to date erroneously.

misdated
-of misdate

misdating
-of misdate

misdeal
-to deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution.
-the act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.

misdealing
-of misdeal

misdealt
-of misdeal

misdeed
-an evil deed; a wicked action.

misdeem
-to misjudge.

misdemean
-to behave ill;
-- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.

misdemeanant
-one guilty of a misdemeanor.

misdemeanor
-ill behavior; evil conduct; fault.
-a crime less than a felony.

misdempt
-p. p. of misdeem.

misdepart
-to distribute wrongly.

misderive
-to turn or divert improperly; to misdirect.
-to derive erroneously.

misdescribe
-to describe wrongly.

misdesert
-ill desert.

misdevotion
-mistaken devotion.

misdid
-of misdo

misdiet
-improper.
-to diet improperly.

misdight
-arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably.

misdirect
-to give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

misdirection
-the act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
-an error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law.

misdisposition
-erroneous disposal or application.

misdistinguish
-to make wrong distinctions in or concerning.

misdivide
-to divide wrongly.

misdivision
-wrong division.

misdo
-to do wrongly.
-to do wrong to; to illtreat.
-to do wrong; to commit a fault.

misdoer
-a wrongdoer.

misdoing
-of misdo
-a wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.

misdone
-of misdo

misdoubt
-to be suspicious of; to have suspicion.
-suspicion.
-irresolution; hesitation.

misdoubtful
-misgiving; hesitating.

misdread
-dread of evil.

mise
-the issue in a writ of right.
-expense; cost; disbursement.
-a tax or tallage; in wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of chester, england, at the change of the owner of the earldom.

misease
-want of ease; discomfort; misery.

miseased
-having discomfort or misery; troubled.

miseasy
-not easy; painful.

misedition
-an incorrect or spurious edition.

miseducate
-to educate in a wrong manner.

misemploy
-to employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc.

misemployment
-wrong or mistaken employment.

misenter
-to enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account.

misentreat
-to treat wrongfully.

misentry
-an erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.

miser
-a wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
-a despicable person; a wretch.
-a covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
-a kind of large earth auger.

miserable
-very unhappy; wretched.
-causing unhappiness or misery.
-worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner.
-avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
-a miserable person.

miserableness
-the state or quality of being miserable.

miserably
-in a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly.

miseration
-commiseration.

miserere
-the psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the latin version. it commences with the word miserere.
-a musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm.
-a small projecting boss or bracket, on the under side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see stall). it was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. called also misericordia.
-same as ileus.

misericorde
-compassion; pity; mercy.
-same as misericordia, 2.

misericordia
-an amercement.
-a thin
-bladed dagger; so called, in the middle ages, because used to give the death wound or "mercy" stroke to a fallen adversary.
-an indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.

miseries
-of misery

miserly
-like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.

misery
-great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
-cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
-covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.

misesteem
-want of esteem; disrespect.

misestimate
-to estimate erroneously.

misexplanation
-an erroneous explanation.

misexplication
-wrong explication.

misexposition
-wrong exposition.

misexpound
-to expound erroneously.

misexpression
-wrong expression.

misfaith
-want of faith; distrust.

misfall
-to befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily.

misfallen
-of misfall

misfalling
-of misfall

misfare
-to fare ill.
-misfortune.

misfashion
-to form wrongly.

misfeasance
-a trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do.

misfeature
-ill feature.

misfeeling
-insensate.

misfeign
-to feign with an evil design.

misfell
-of misfall

misfit
-the act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.
-something that fits badly, as a garment.

misform
-to make in an ill form.

misformation
-malformation.

misformed
-of misform

misforming
-of misform

misfortunate
-producing misfortune.

misfortune
-bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
-to happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.

misfortuned
-unfortunate.

misframe
-to frame wrongly.

misgave
-of misgive

misget
-to get wrongfully.

misgie
-see misgye.

misgive
-to give or grant amiss.
-specifically: to give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute;
-- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.
-to suspect; to dread.
-to give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute.

misgiven
-of misgive

misgiving
-of misgive
-evil premonition; doubt; distrust.

misgotten
-unjustly gotten.

misgovern
-to govern ill; as, to misgovern a country.

misgovernance
-misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior.

misgoverned
-ill governed, as a people; ill directed.

misgovernment
-bad government; want of government.

misgracious
-not gracious.

misgraff
-to misgraft.

misgraft
-to graft wrongly.

misground
-to found erroneously.

misgrowth
-bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.

misguess
-to guess wrongly.

misguidance
-wrong guidance.

misguide
-to guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
-misguidance; error.

misguiding
-misleading.

misgye
-to misguide.

mishandle
-to handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.

mishap
-evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
-to happen unluckily;
-- used impersonally.

mishappen
-to happen ill or unluckily.

mishappy
-unhappy.

mishcup
-the scup.

mishear
-to hear incorrectly.

mishmash
-a hotchpotch.

mishna
-a collection or digest of jewish traditions and explanations of scripture, forming the text of the talmud.

mishnic
-of or pertaining to the mishna.

misimagination
-wrong imagination; delusion.

misimprove
-to use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc.

misimprovement
-ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.

misincline
-to cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.

misinfer
-to infer incorrectly.

misinform
-to give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.
-to give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate.

misinformant
-a misinformer.

misinformation
-untrue or incorrect information.

misinformer
-one who gives or incorrect information.

misinstruct
-to instruct amiss.

misinstruction
-wrong or improper instruction.

misintelligence
-wrong information; misinformation.
-disagreement; misunderstanding.

misintend
-to aim amiss.

misinterpret
-to interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

misinterpretable
-capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

misinterpretation
-the act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

misinterpreter
-one who interprets erroneously.

misjoin
-to join unfitly or improperly.

misjoinder
-an incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.

misjudge
-to judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

misjudgment
-a wrong or unjust judgment.

miskeep
-to keep wrongly.

misken
-not to know.

miskin
-a little bagpipe.

miskindle
-to kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.

misknow
-to have a mistaken notion of or about.

mislactation
-defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.

mislaid
-of mislay

mislay
-to lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source.
-to lay in a place not recollected; to lose.

mislayer
-one who mislays.

mislaying
-of mislay

misle
-to rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.
-a fine rain; a thick mist; mizzle.

mislead
-to lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

misleader
-one who leads into error.

misleading
-of mislead
-leading astray; delusive.

mislearn
-to learn wrongly.

misled
-of misle
-of mislead
-imp. & p. p. of mislead.

misletoe
-see mistletoe.

mislight
-to deceive or lead astray with a false light.

mislike
-to dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man.
-dislike; disapprobation; aversion.

misliked
-of mislike

misliker
-one who dislikes.

misliking
-of mislike
-dislike; aversion.

mislin
-see maslin.

misling
-of misle

mislive
-to live amiss.

mislodge
-to lodge amiss.

misluck
-ill luck; misfortune.

misly
-raining in very small drops.

mismanage
-to manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.

mismanagement
-wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.

mismanager
-one who manages ill.

mismark
-to mark wrongly.

mismatch
-to match unsuitably.

mismate
-to mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.

mismeasure
-to measure or estimate incorrectly.

mismeasurement
-wrong measurement.

mismeter
-to give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.

misname
-to call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.

misnomer
-the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
-to misname.

misnumber
-to number wrongly.

misnurture
-to nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children.

misobedience
-mistaken obedience; disobedience.

misobserve
-to observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.

misobserver
-one who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.

misogamist
-a hater of marriage.

misogamy
-hatre/ of marriage.

misogynist
-a woman hater.

misogynous
-hating women.

misogyny
-hatred of women.

misology
-hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment.

misopinion
-wrong opinion.

misorder
-to order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly.
-irregularity; disorder.

misorderly
-irregular; disorderly.

misordination
-wrong ordination.

misotheism
-hatred of god.

mispaint
-to paint ill, or wrongly.

mispassion
-wrong passion or feeling.

mispay
-to dissatisfy.

mispell
-alt. of mispend

mispend
-see misspell, misspend, etc.

mispense
-see misspense.

misperception
-erroneous perception.

mispersuade
-to persuade amiss.

mispersuasion
-a false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion.

mispickel
-arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.

misplace
-to put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.

misplaced
-of misplace

misplacement
-the act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.

misplacing
-of misplace

misplead
-to err in pleading.

mispleading
-an error in pleading.

mispoint
-to point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.

mispolicy
-wrong policy; impolicy.

mispractice
-wrong practice.

mispraise
-to praise amiss.

misprint
-to print wrong.
-a mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints.

misprise
-see misprize.
-to mistake.

misprision
-the act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake.
-neglect; undervaluing; contempt.
-a neglect, negligence, or contempt.

misprize
-to slight or undervalue.

misproceeding
-wrong or irregular proceding.

misprofess
-to make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.
-to make a false profession of.

mispronounce
-to pronounce incorrectly.

mispronounced
-of mispronounce

mispronouncing
-of mispronounce

mispronunciation
-wrong or improper pronunciation.

misproportion
-to give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.

misproud
-viciously proud.

mispunctuate
-to punctuate wrongly or incorrectly.

misquotation
-erroneous or inaccurate quotation.

misquote
-to quote erroneously or incorrectly.

misraise
-to raise or exite unreasonable.

misrate
-to rate erroneously.

misread
-of misread
-to read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.

misreading
-of misread

misreceive
-to receive wrongly.

misrecital
-an inaccurate recital.

misrecite
-to recite erroneously.

misreckon
-to reckon wrongly; to miscalculate.

misreckoning
-an erroneous computation.

misrecollect
-to have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects.

misrecollection
-erroneous or inaccurate recollection.

misreform
-to reform wrongly or imperfectly.

misregard
-wrong understanding; misconstruction.

misregulate
-to regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.

misrehearse
-to rehearse or quote incorrectly.

misrelate
-to relate inaccurately.

misrelation
-erroneous relation or narration.

misreligion
-false religion.

misremember
-to mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.

misrender
-to render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.

misrepeat
-to repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.

misreport
-to report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.
-an erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given.

misrepresent
-to represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.
-to make an incorrect or untrue representation.

misrepresentation
-untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account;
-- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.

misrepresentative
-tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.

misrepresenter
-one who misrepresents.

misrepute
-to have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.

misrule
-to rule badly; to misgovern.
-the act, or the result, of misruling.
-disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.

misruly
-unruly.

miss
-a title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. see mistress, 5.
-a young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
-a kept mistress. see mistress, 4.
-in the game of three
-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
-to fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
-to omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with;
-- now seldom applied to persons.
-to discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
-to fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
-to fail to obtain, learn, or find;
-- with of.
-to go wrong; to err.
-to be absent, deficient, or wanting.
-the act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
-loss; want; felt absence.
-mistake; error; fault.
-harm from mistake.

missa
-the service or sacrifice of the mass.

missae
-of missa

missal
-the book containing the service of the mass for the entire year; a mass book.
-of or pertaining to the mass, or to a missal or mass book.

missay
-to say wrongly.
-to speak evil of; to slander.
-to speak ill.

missed
-of miss

misseek
-to seek for wrongly.

misseem
-to make a false appearance.
-to misbecome; to be misbecoming.

missel
-mistletoe.

misseldine
-the mistletoe.

misseltoe
-see mistletoe.

missemblance
-false resemblance or semblance.

missend
-to send amiss or incorrectly.

misserve
-to serve unfaithfully.

misses
-of miss

misset
-to set pr place wrongly.

misshape
-to shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.

misshapen
-having a bad or ugly form.

missheathed
-sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.

missificate
-to perform mass.

missile
-capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.
-a weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.

missing
-of miss
-absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.

missingly
-with a sense of loss.

mission
-the act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
-that with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
-persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
-an assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.
-an organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.
-a course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.
-dismission; discharge from service.
-to send on a mission.

missionaries
-of missionary

missionary
-one who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.
-of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

missioner
-a missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. see mission, n., 6.

missis
-a mistress; a wife;
-- so used by the illiterate.

missish
-like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental.

missit
-to sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.

missive
-specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive.
-missile.
-that which is sent; a writing containing a message.
-one who is sent; a messenger.

missound
-to sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly.

misspeak
-to err in speaking.
-to utter wrongly.

misspeech
-wrong speech.

misspell
-to spell incorrectly.

misspelled
-of misspell

misspelling
-of misspell
-a wrong spelling.

misspelt
-of misspell

misspend
-to spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.

misspender
-one who misspends.

misspending
-of misspend

misspent
-of misspend
-imp. & p. p. of misspend.

misstate
-to state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.

misstatement
-an incorrect statement.

misstayed
-having missed stays;
-- said of a ship.

misstep
-a wrong step; an error of conduct.
-to take a wrong step; to go astray.

missuccess
-failure.

missuggestion
-wrong or evil suggestion.

missummation
-wrong summation.

misswear
-to swear falsely.

missy
-see misy.
-an affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss.
-like a miss, or girl.

mist
-visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
-coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, scotch mist.
-hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
-to cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.
-to rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

mistakable
-liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.

mistake
-to make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
-to take or choose wrongly.
-to take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.
-to substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.
-to have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.
-to err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.
-an apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
-misconception, error, which when non
-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.

mistaken
-of mistake
-being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.
-erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.

mistakenly
-by mistake.

mistakenness
-erroneousness.

mistaker
-one who mistakes.

mistaking
-of mistake
-an error; a mistake.

mistakingly
-erroneously.

mistaught
-wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth.
-of misteach

misteach
-to teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.

misteaching
-of misteach

misted
-of mist

mistell
-to tell erroneously.

mistelling
-of mistell

mistemper
-to temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head.

mister
-a title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. it is usually written in the abbreviated form mr.
-to address or mention by the title mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way.
-a trade, art, or occupation.
-manner; kind; sort.
-need; necessity.
-to be needful or of use.

misterm
-to call by a wrong name; to miscall.

mistery
-see mystery, a trade.

mistful
-clouded with, or as with, mist.

misthink
-to think wrongly.
-to have erroneous thoughts or judgment of; to think ill of.

misthought
-erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error.

misthrive
-to thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous.

misthrow
-to throw wrongly.

mistic
-alt. of mistico

mistico
-a kind of small sailing vessel used in the mediterranean. it is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.

mistide
-to happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune.

mistigri
-a variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.

mistigris
-alt. of mistigri

mistihead
-mistiness.

mistily
-with mist; darkly; obscurely.

mistime
-to time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.

mistiness
-state of being misty.

misting
-of mist

mistion
-mixture.

mistitle
-to call by a wrong title.

mistle
-to fall in very fine drops, as rain.

mistletoe
-a parasitic evergreen plant of europe (viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. when found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the druids. a bird lime is prepared from its fruit.

mistold
-of mistell

mistonusk
-the american badger.

mistook
-of mistake
-imp. & obs. p. p. of mistake.

mistradition
-a wrong tradition.

mistrain
-to train amiss.

mistral
-a violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the mediterranean provinces of france, etc.

mistranslate
-to translate erroneously.

mistranslation
-wrong translation.

mistransport
-to carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion.

mistreading
-misstep; misbehavior.

mistreat
-to treat amiss; to abuse.

mistreatment
-wrong treatment.

mistress
-a woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
-a woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
-a woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
-a woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
-a title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, mrs., for a married, and miss, for an unmarried, woman.
-a married woman; a wife.
-the old name of the jack at bowls.
-to wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

mistressship
-female rule or dominion.
-ladyship, a style of address;
-- with the personal pronoun.

mistrial
-a false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result.

mistrist
-to mistrust.

mistrow
-to think wrongly.

mistrust
-want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.
-to regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.
-to forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise.

mistruster
-one who mistrusts.

mistrustful
-having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

mistrustingly
-with distrust or suspicion.

mistrustless
-having no mistrust or suspicion.

mistune
-to tune wrongly.

mistura
-a mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. see mixture, n., 4.
-sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops.

misturn
-to turn amiss; to pervert.

mistutor
-to instruct amiss.

misty
-accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.
-obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight.

misunderstand
-to misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

misunderstander
-one who misunderstands.

misunderstanding
-of misunderstand
-mistake of the meaning; error; misconception.
-disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.

misunderstood
-of misunderstand

misurato
-measured;
-- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.

misusage
-bad treatment; abuse.

misuse
-to treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.
-to abuse; to treat ill.
-wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.
-violence, or its effects.

misusement
-misuse.

misuser
-one who misuses.
-unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right.

misvalue
-to value wrongly or too little; to undervalue.

misvouch
-to vouch falsely.

miswander
-to wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.

misway
-a wrong way.

miswear
-to wear ill.

miswed
-to wed improperly.

misween
-to ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken.

miswend
-to go wrong; to go astray.

misword
-to word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.
-a word wrongly spoken; a cross word.

misworship
-wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion.
-to worship wrongly.

misworshiper
-one who worships wrongly.

miswrite
-to write incorrectly.

miswrought
-badly wrought.

misy
-an impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.

misyoke
-to yoke improperly.

miszealous
-mistakenly zealous.

mite
-a minute arachnid, of the order acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. see acarina.
-a small coin formerly circulated in england, rated at about a third of a farthing. the name is also applied to a small coin used in palestine in the time of christ.
-a small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
-anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.

miter
-alt. of mitre
-alt. of mitre
-alt. of mitre

mitered
-of mitre

mitering
-of mitre

miterwort
-any plant of the genus mitella,
-- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap.

mithic
-see mythic.

mithras
-the sun god of the persians.

mithridate
-an antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic;
-- so called from king mithridates, its reputed inventor.

mithridatic
-of or pertaining to king mithridates, or to a mithridate.

mitigable
-admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.

mitigant
-tending to mitigate; mitigating; lentitive.

mitigate
-to make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
-to make mild and accessible; to mollify;
-- applied to persons.

mitigated
-of mitigate

mitigating
-of mitigate

mitigation
-the act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.

mitigative
-tending to mitigate; alleviating.

mitigator
-one who, or that which, mitigates.

mitigatory
-tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

miting
-a little one;
-- used as a term of endearment.

mitome
-the denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.

mitosis
-see karyokinesis.

mitraille
-shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

mitrailleur
-one who serves a mitrailleuse.

mitrailleuse
-a breech
-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

mitral
-pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.

mitre
-a covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. it has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.
-the surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
-a sort of base money or coin.
-to place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.
-to match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.
-to meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.
-see miter.

mitred
-of mitre

mitriform
-having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra.

mitring
-of mitre

mitt
-a mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

mitten
-a covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. it differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
-a cover for the wrist and forearm.

mittened
-covered with a mitten or mittens.

mittent
-sending forth; emitting.

mitter's green
-a pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.

mittimus
-a precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.
-a writ for removing records from one court to another.

mitty
-the stormy petrel.

mitu
-a south american curassow of the genus mitua.

mity
-having, or abounding with, mites.

mix
-to cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.
-to unite with in company; to join; to associate.
-to form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
-to become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.
-to associate; to mingle.

mixable
-capable of being mixed.

mixed
-of mix
-formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. see mix, v. t. & i.

mixedly
-in a mixed or mingled manner.

mixen
-a compost heap; a dunghill.

mixer
-one who, or that which, mixes.

mixing
-of mix

mixogamous
-pairing with several males;
-- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.

mixolydian mode
-the seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on g.

mixt
-of mix

mixtilineal
-alt. of mixtilinear

mixtilinear
-containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.

mixtion
-mixture.
-a kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

mixtly
-with mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly.

mixture
-the act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.
-that which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water;
-- also, a medley.
-an ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient.
-a kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.
-a mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled;
-- contrasted with a compound; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.
-an organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops;
-- called also furniture stop. it consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.

mizmaze
-a maze or labyrinth.

mizzen
-hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.
-the hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three
-masted vessel; also, the spanker.

mizzenmast
-the hindmost mast of a three
-masted vessel, or of a yawl
-rigged vessel.

mizzle
-to rain in very fine drops.
-to take one's self off; to go.
-mist; fine rain.

mizzled
-of mizzle

mizzling
-of mizzle

mizzy
-a bog or quagmire.

misspense
-a spending improperly; a wasting.