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To mistake. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. [Archaic] Fuller. The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. Hare.

To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.

title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

Mistletoe. [Obs.] Missel bird, Missel thrush (Zoöl.), a large European thrush (Turdus viscivorus) which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.

The mistletoe. [Obs.] Baret.

See Mistletoe.

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

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

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon.

To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken. [Obs.] Spenser.

Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.

Mistakenly zealous. [Obs.]

Mist; fine rain.

Misty; dark; murky; muggy. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. Mortimer. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.

used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the alchemists aurum musivum, or aurum mosaicum. Called also bronze powder. -- Mosaic work. See Mosaic, n.

The customary abbreviation of Mister in writing and printing. See Master, 4.

The art of increasing gold or silver by magic, -- attributed formerly to the alchemists. [Obs.] Chaucer. Multiplication table, a table giving the product of a set of numbers multiplied in some regular way; commonly, a table giving the products of the first ten or twelve numbers multiplied successively by 1, 2, 3, etc.,…