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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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21,540 words match “MI”

MISINTEND v.
To aim amiss. [Obs.]
MISINTERPRET v.
To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
MISINTERPRETABLE a.
Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
MISINTERPRETATION n.
The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
MISINTERPRETER n.
One who interprets erroneously.
MISJOIN v.
To join unfitly or improperly.
MISJOINDER n.
An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil. Wharton.
MISJUDGE v.
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
MISJUDGMENT n.
A wrong or unjust judgment.
MISKEEP v.
To keep wrongly. Chaucer.
MISKEN v.
Not to know. [Obs.]
MISKIN n.
A little bagpipe. [Obs.] Drayton.
MISKINDLE v.
To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
MISKNOW v.
To have a mistaken notion of or about. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
MISLACTATION n.
Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.
MISLAY v. 2 definitions
To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source. The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. Locke.
MISLAYER n.
One who mislays.
MISLE v. 2 definitions
To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.
MISLEAD v.
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton.
MISLEADER n.
One who leads into error.
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