Misgracious adjective Not gracious. [ Obsolete]

Misgraff transitive verb To misgraft. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Misgraft transitive verb To graft wrongly.

Misground transitive verb To found erroneously. " Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.

Misgrowth noun Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.

Misguess transitive verb & i. To guess wrongly.

Misguidance noun Wrong guidance.

Misguide transitive verb To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.

Misguide noun Misguidance; error. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Misguiding adjective Misleading. -- Mis*guid"ing*ly , adverb

Misgye transitive verb To misguide. [ Obsolete]

Mishandle transitive verb To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.

Mishap noun Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. Chaucer.

Secure from worldly chances and mishaps .

Shak.

Mishap intransitive verb To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally. [ Obsolete] "If that me mishap ." Chaucer.

Mishappen intransitive verb To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.

Mishappy adjective Unhappy. [ Obsolete]

Mishcup noun [ See Scup .] (Zoology) The scup. [ Local, U. S.]

Mishear transitive verb & i. To hear incorrectly.

Mishmash noun [ Confer German mish- mash , from mischen to mix.] A hotchpotch. Sir T. Herbert.

Mishna noun [ NHeb. mishnāh , i. e., repetition, doubling, explanation (of the divine law), from Hebrew shānāh to change, to repeat.] A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud. [ Written also Mischna .]

Mishnic adjective Of or pertaining to the Mishna.

Misimagination noun Wrong imagination; delusion. Bp. Hall.

Misimprove transitive verb To use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc. South.

Mis`im*prove"ment noun Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.

Misincline transitive verb To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.

Misinfer transitive verb To infer incorrectly.

Misinform transitive verb To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.

Misinform intransitive verb To give untrue information; (with against ) to calumniate. [ R.] Bp. Montagu.

Misinformant noun A misinformer.

Misinformation noun Untrue or incorrect information. Bacon.

Misinformer noun One who gives untrue or incorrect information.

Misinstruct transitive verb To instruct amiss.

Misinstruction noun Wrong or improper instruction.

Misintelligence noun
1. Wrong information; misinformation.

2. Disagreement; misunderstanding. [ Obsolete]

Misintend transitive verb To aim amiss. [ Obsolete]

Misinterpret transitive verb To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

Misinterpretable adjective Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

Misinterpretation noun The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

Misinterpreter noun One who interprets erroneously.

Misjoin transitive verb To join unfitly or improperly.

Misjoinder noun (Law) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil. Wharton.

Misjudge transitive verb & i. To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

Misjudgment noun [ Written also misjudgement .] A wrong or unjust judgment.

Miskeep transitive verb To keep wrongly. Chaucer.

Misken transitive verb Not to know. [ Obsolete]

Miskin noun [ Prob. for music + - kin .] (Mus.) A little bagpipe. [ Obsolete] Drayton.

Miskindle transitive verb To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.

Misknow transitive verb To have a mistaken notion of or about. [ Obsolete] Bp. Hall.

Mislactation noun (Medicine) Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.

Mislay transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mislaid ; present participle & verbal noun Mislaying .]

1. To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source.

The fault is generally mislaid upon nature.

Locke.

2. To lay in a place not recollected; to lose.

The . . . charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid : and the prayer of their petition was to obtain one of like import in its stead.

Hallam.

Mislayer noun One who mislays.