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To misjudge. [Obs.] Daniel. -- n.

A wrong conjecture or guess. Sir T. Browne.

Ill feature. [R.] Keats.

To measure or estimate incorrectly.

Wrong measurement.

To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children. Bp. Hall.

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients. Hooker.

oistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.

Without moisture.

See Monosulphide.

ne of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid. [Written also monureide.]

The act of biting. Swift.

A moving picture.

A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move in so…

The toll for grinding grain. Erskine.

Like or pertaining to the genus Muræna, or family Murænidæ.

To inclose in walls; to wall; to immure; to shut up. Spenser. The five kings are mured in a cave. John. x. (Heading).

One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.

A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.

A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.