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Improperly, the cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum).

rest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in. Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt 2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddl…

monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church. Minster house, the official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation. Shipley.

A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance. A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard should know it. Mrs. Browning.

Improperly appreciated.

To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.

To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully. [Obs.] W. Browne.

To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.

To bestow improperly.

To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.

Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous. Rogers.

To conduct amiss; to mismanage. Johnson. To misconduct one's self, to behave improperly.

To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Improper. [Obs.] Spenser.

A trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do. Bouvier. Wharton.

Wrong or improper instruction.

To join unfitly or improperly.

To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.