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A particular feature or trait. [Obs.] Massinger.

A painter of miniatures.

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.

Unfortunate. [Obs.]

Unfortunate.

Misadventure. [Obs.]

A wrong conjecture or guess. Sir T. Browne.

Ill feature. [R.] Keats.

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

A mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture, n., 4.

To turn amiss; to pervert.

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

moistens 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.

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.

Musculation.

Connected with, or near, both the turbinal and the nasal bones; as, the nasalturbinal bone, made up of the uppermost lammelæ of the ethmoturbinal, and sometimes united with the nasal. -- n.

Same as Nasturtium.