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The quality of being miry.

Darkness; gloom; murk. "In mirk and mire." Longfellow.

Dark; gloomy; murky. [Archaic] Spenser. -- Mirk"some*ness, n. [Archaic]

Dark; gloomy. See Murky.

A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound.

ubstance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light. And in her hand she held a mirror bright, Wherein her face she often viewèd fair. Spenser.

See Projector, below.

hter; jollity. Then will I cause to cease ... from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth. Jer. vii. 34.

Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.

Without mirth. -- Mirth"less*ness, n.

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

A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.

The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.

Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] "To correcten that [which] is mis." Chaucer.

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

Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.

To account or reckon wrongly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment. I. Taylor.

Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. Blackstone.