Mistide intransitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon mistīdan . See Tide .] To happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune. [ Obsolete]

Mistigris Mis`ti`gri" noun [ French mistigri .] A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri .

Mistihead noun Mistiness. [ Obsolete]

Mistily adverb With mist; darkly; obscurely.

Mistime transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon mistīmain to turn out ill.] To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.

Mistiness noun State of being misty.

Mistion noun [ Latin mistio , mixtio . See Mix , and confer Mixtion .] Mixture. [ Obsolete]

Mistitle transitive verb To call by a wrong title.

Mistle intransitive verb [ Eng. mist . See Misle , and Mizzle .] To fall in very fine drops, as rain.

Mistletoe noun [ Anglo-Saxon misteltān ; mistel mistletoe + tān twig. Anglo-Saxon mistel is akin of D., G., Dan. & Swedish mistel , Old High German mistil , Icelandic mistil teinn; and Anglo-Saxon tān to Dutch teen , Old High German zein , Icelandic teinn , Goth. tains . Confer Missel .] (Botany) A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album) , bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [ Written also misletoe , misseltoe , and mistleto .] Lindley. Loudon.

» The mistletoe of the United States is Phoradendron flavescens , having broader leaves than the European kind. In different regions various similar plants are called by this name.

Mistonusk noun [ From the Indian name.] (Zoology) The American badger.

Mistook imperfect & obsolete past participle of Mistake .

Mistradition noun A wrong tradition. "Monsters of mistradition ." Tennyson.

Mistrain transitive verb To train amiss.

Mistral noun [ French, from Provençal.] A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

Mistranslate transitive verb To translate erroneously.

Mistranslation noun Wrong translation.

Mistransport transitive verb To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. [ Obsolete] Bp. Hall.

Mistreading noun Misstep; misbehavior. "To punish my mistreadings ." Shak.

Mistreat transitive verb To treat amiss; to abuse.

Mistreatment noun Wrong treatment.

Mistress noun [ Middle English maistress , Old French maistresse , French maîtresse , Late Latin magistrissa , for Latin magistra , fem. of magister . See Master , Mister , and confer Miss a young woman.]
1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.

The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter!
To be her mistress ' mistress !

Shak.

2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic.

Addison.

3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart. [ Poetic] Clarendon.

4. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually. Spectator.

5. A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs ., for a married, and Miss , for an unmarried, woman.

Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul).

Cowper.

6. A married woman; a wife. [ Scot.]

Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening.

Sir W. Scott.

7. The old name of the jack at bowls. Beau. & Fl.

To be one's own mistress , to be exempt from control by another person.

Mistress intransitive verb To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. [ Obsolete] Donne.

Mistressship noun
1. Female rule or dominion.

2. Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun. [ Obsolete] Massinger.

Mistrial noun (Law) A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result.

Mistrist transitive verb To mistrust. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Mistrow intransitive verb To think wrongly. [ Obsolete]

Mistrust noun Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust. Milton.

Mistrust transitive verb
1. To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.

I will never mistrust my wife again.

Shak.

2. To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise.

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust
Ensuing dangers.

Shak.

Mistruster noun One who mistrusts.

Mistrustful adjective Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood.

Shak.

-- Mis*trust"ful*ly , adverb -- Mis*trust"ful*ness , noun

Mistrustingly adverb With distrust or suspicion.

Mistrustless adjective Having no mistrust or suspicion.

The swain mistrustless of his smutted face.

Goldsmith.

Mistune transitive verb To tune wrongly.

Mistura noun [ Latin See Mixture .] (Medicine) (a) A mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture , noun , 4. (b) Sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops. Dunglison.

Misturn transitive verb To turn amiss; to pervert.

Mistutor transitive verb To instruct amiss.

Misty (mĭst"ȳ) adjective [ Compar. Mistier (-ĭ*ẽr); superl. Mistiest .] [ Anglo-Saxon mistig . See Mist . In some senses misty has been confused with mystic .]
1. Accompanied with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.

2. Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight.

The more I muse therein [ theology],
The mistier it seemeth.

Piers Plowman.

Misunderstand (mĭs*ŭn`dẽr*stănd") transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Misunderstood (- stod"); present participle & verbal noun Misunderstanding .] To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

Misunderstander (-ẽr) noun One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.

Misunderstanding noun
1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon.

2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. " Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

Misurato (mē`sō*rä"to) adjective [ Italian ] (Mus.) Measured; -- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.

Misusage (mĭs*ūz"aj) noun [ Confer French mésusage .] Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.

Misuse (-ūz") transitive verb [ French mésuser . See Mis- , prefix from French, and Use .]
1. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents. South.

The sweet poison of misused wine.

Milton.

2. To abuse; to treat ill.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

Shak.

Syn. -- To maltreat; abuse; misemploy; misapply.

Misuse (mĭs*ūs") noun
1. Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.

Words little suspected for any such misuse .

Locke.

2. Violence, or its effects. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Misusement noun Misuse. [ Obsolete]

Misuser noun
1. One who misuses. "Wretched misusers of language." Coleridge.

2. (Law) Unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right. Bouvier.

Misvalue transitive verb To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue.

But for I am so young, I dread my work
Wot be misvalued both of old and young.

W. Browne.

Misvouch transitive verb To vouch falsely.

Miswander intransitive verb To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.