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Injurious; disadvantageous. [Obs.] Bacon.

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence. Prescott. -- D…

Misfortune; mishap. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Unprosperous; unfortunate. [Obs.] Spenser.

To advise against; to dissuade from. [R.] Boyle.

Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.

An embassy. See Ambassade. [Obs.] Shak.

Same as Ambassador. Stilbon, that was a wise embassadour, Was sent to Corinth. Chaucer. Myself my king's embassador will go. Dryden.

Same as Ambassadorial.

Same as Ambassadress.

Embassy. [Obs.] Leland.

A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps. Tyndall.

An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.

Same as Mesiad.

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.

Unfortunate. [Obs.]

Unfortunate.

Inadvertence.