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Failure. [Obs.]

Wrong or evil suggestion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Wrong summation.

To swear falsely.

An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. -- a.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

ing admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

Implying an admission; tending to admit. [R.] Lamb.

Pertaining to admission.

Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.…

The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [R.] Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.

Liable to be lost. [R.]

Deprivation; loss. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The bedbug. [Obs.] Wright.

In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).…

Of or pertaining to a commissary.

The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. Donne.

The office or employment of a commissary. Ayliffe.