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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.

A sending out; emission. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Incapable of being lost. [R.] Hammond. -- In`a*mis"si*ble*ness, n. [R.]

fies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force…

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.] The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.

In grief; amiss. [Obs.] Chaucer.

. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

To close with a hatch or hatches. 'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. Shak

Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] "To correcten that [which] is mis." Chaucer.

A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

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

To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.

To copy amiss.

To create badly or amiss.

Creating amiss. [R.]

To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc. Their frugal father's gains they misemploy. Dryden.

To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] Laud.