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To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.

Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n.

Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. Shak.

To perform Mass. [Obs.] Milton.

strument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance. We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart. Pope.

o be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for. Neither was there aught missing unto them. 1 Sam. xxv. 7. For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. Milton.

With a sense of loss. [Obs.] Shak.

; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion. Swift. Missionary apostolic, a Roman Catholic missionary sent by commission from the pope.

A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.

A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate. G. Eliot.

Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental. -- Miss"ish*ness, n.

To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive. Ayliffe.

To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.

To err in speaking.

Wrong speech. [Obs.]

To spell incorrectly.

A wrong spelling.

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