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Show MI MI and inven Iedge of the fciences, manufatures tions of all the world, and bring us books an patterns; and that the brethren fhould ftay abroa Bacon's New Atlantis till the new wiffion 3. Difmiffion In Ceafar's army, fomewhat the foldiers woul have had, yet only demanded a miffion or difcharge though with no intention it fhould be granted but thought to wrench him to their other defires whereupon with one cry they afked miffions Bacon . Fa&ion in thefe fields of late Made emulous miffions 'mongft the gods themfelves Shake[peare And drove great Mars to faction Why then fhe lives Liabl You mentio hath been perfecuted for his religion Like mighty miffioner you come AQd pastes infidelium Dryden [French. in that fenfe Great aids came in to him; partly upon miffives Bacon and partly voluntary from many parts Both obfolete Rioting in Alexandria, yo Did pocket up my letters ; and with taunt Shakefpeare Did gibe my miffive out of audience While wrapt in the wonder of it came miffive from the king, who all hail'd me thane of Cawder Shake[peare's Macbeth [mis and fpeak. §0 M1sspE'AK, . a To {peak wrong A mother delights to hea ®ler early child miffpeak half-utter'd words. Donne T Misspe'ak fpeaking @ n T blunde i It is not o ; thou haft mifpoke, mifheard Tell o'er thy tale again Shakefpeare's King Lear Mist. z. /. [myz, Saxon. 1. A low thin cloud; a fmall thin rai not perceived in fingle drops Old Chaucer, like the morning ftar "To us difcovers day from far His light thofe miffs and clouds diffolv' Denban Which our dark nation long involv'd And mifts condens'd to clouds obfcure the fky And clouds diffolv'd, the thirfty ground fupply Rofcommon As a mift is a multitude of fmall but {olid globules, which therefore defcend; fo a vapour, an therefore a watry cloud, is nothing elfe but a congeries of very fmall and concave globules, whic therefore afcend to that height, in which they ar of equal weight with the air, where they remai fufpended, till by fome motion in the -air, bein broken, they defcend in folid drops; either fmall as in a miff, or bigger, when many of them ru together, as in rain Grew But hov'ring iffs around his brows are fpread And night with fable thades involves his head Dryden A cloud is nothing but a miff flying high in th dir, as a mift is nothing but a cloud here below 2. Any thing that dims or darkens Locke My peoples eyes once blinded with fuch ziffs o fufpicion, they are mifled into the moft defperat King Charles ations His paffion caft a mift before his fenfe And either made or magnify'd th' offence. Dryden Vor, I To MisTE LL. . a. [mis and tell. tell unfaithfully or inaccurately To MisTe'MPER. v. . [mis and temper. T for the other Stil in fleet This will make the reader very much miffake Locke and mifunderftand his meaning Fancy pafles for knowlege faid is miffaken for folid and what is prettil Locke That vice or virtue there is none at all Reft Mista'ke w z 'T err no t Seeing God found folly in his angels; men Judgments, which inhabit thefe houfes of clay Raleigh cannot be without their mifiakings Seldom any one miffakes in his names of fimpl ideas, or applies the name red to the idea green Locke Servants miftake, and fometimes occafion mifunSaift derftanding among friends MisTa'e~, pret. and part. pafl. of miffak for miftaken an fo retained in Scot land This dagger hath mifia'en, forlo! the fheat Lies empty on the back of Mountague ‘The point mistheathed in my daughter's bofom Shakefpeare To be Mista'kEN To err. [0 miffak has a kind of reciprocal fenfe; I mi/take, je me trompe I am miftaken means, [ mifconceive, I am in an erro more frequently than 7 am ill underSood 5 but, my opinion is miftaken, mean my opinion is not rightly underf?ood. The towns, neither of the one fide nor th other, willingly opening their gates to ftrangers nor f{trangers willingly entering for fear of bein miflaken Sidney England is fo idly king'd -You are too much miffaken in this king Queftion, your grace, the late ambaffadors How modeft in exception, and witha How terrible in conftant refolution Shakefpeare Miftaken Brutus thought to break their yoke But cut the bond of union with that ftroke. Waller Misra'ke = / [from the verb. Mif conception ; error He never fhall find out fit mate ; but fuc As fome misfortune brings him, ox miffake. Milton Infallibility is an abfolute fecurity of the underftanding from all poflibility of miffake in what i believes Tillotfon Thofe terrors ate not to be charged upon religion, which proceed either from the want o religion, or fuperfitious miffakes about it MisTaA'RINGLY. adv Erroneoufly; falfly Bentley [from miffaking. The error is not in the eye, but in the eftimativ faculty, which miffakingly concludes that colour t belong to the wall which does indeed belong t the objeét Zo Mista'TE, @.a ftate wrong The Boyle on Colours [mis and ffate. miflate the queftion, whe prefling ceremonies by yo Wha Th T they talk o Bifbop Sanderfon ill ; to diforder onl adj to be qualified [fro sifter Skakefpeare meftier, trade what kind of redcrofs knigh Fr. Obfolete toward him crofie fag To weet what mifter wight wa £ difmay'd There him he finds all fenfelefs and aghaft. Spenfer MisTe RM. v. a. [mis and term. term erroneouily T Hence banifhed, is banifh'd from the world And world exil'd is death T'hat banithe Is death miffern'd. Shakefpeare's Romeo and Fulict. Z and nothing is fo plain *Tis to miftake them cofts the time and pain. Pope T tempe T'his inundation of miffcmper'd humou betwee affinit diforders of a mriffaugh L E more confummat le€ted youth their invocation of faints and the heathen idolatry or elfe there was no danger one fhould be miffake Afk your own heart extravagance Mi'stER a grea apprehen di Thef judge right A letter fent: itisretained in Scotlan 2. A meflenger and lef Brown Fools into the notion fall In vain with darts a diftant war they try Short, and more fhort, the miflive weapons fly 1 mino that which it is not Savift 2. Ufed at diitance Th miftake. wrong fet forth i gations as will be fur To MisTa'kE. . a. [mis and take.] T conceive wrong; to take fomething fo wh The king grants a licence under the great feal called a congé d'eflire, to ele¢t the perfon he ha nominated by his letters miffive. Ayliffe's Parergon n./ conceive differently they ar miftakeable numbers 1. Such as is fent MI'SSIVE b [fro [mis and teach. Such guides fhal It is not ftrange to fee the difference of a thir part in fo large an account, if we confider ho Dryden M 'sstvE. adj. [miffive, French. t adj w. a T'o teach wrong Shakefpeare's King Lear MisTo'kEaBLE M1 ssioNaRY. ) #. f. {[miffionaire, Fr. One fent to propagat M1 ss1ONER religion the prefbyterian miffionary Zo Miste'acn Lend me a looking-glafs If that her breath will mif or ftain the ftone Not in ufe party Glorious deeds Zo MisT. w, a. [from the noun. T cloud; to cover with a vapour or fteam Not in ufe difcharge MI MisTeI'NK, @. a. [mis an To think ill; to think wrong think. How will the country, for thefe woful chances b o B Mifikink the king, and not be fatisfy'd »)/.m,\z,‘p We, the greateft, are mifthough For things that others do. Shakefp. Ant. and Clesp Thoughts | which how found they harbour thy breaft Adam, Mifthought of her to thee fo dear! Milton 7o Misti'ME. w. a. [mis and zime.] No to time right; not to adap with regard to time Mr'stiness. z. /. [from mifly. nefs; ftate of being overcalft properl Cloudi The fpeedy depredation of air upon watry moif ture, and verfion of the fame into air in the fudden vanifhing of vapours fro the blade of a fword, fuch as doth not a or imbibe the moifture, for the miffinef immediately Mr'stiox. 2. /. [from miffus The ftate of being mingled In animals man aétion are mixt appearet glafs, o all detai fcatteret Bacon Latin. an depen upon their living form as well as that of miftion and though they wholly feem to retain unto th body, depart upon difunion Brown Both bodies do, by the new texture refuliin from their miffion, produce colour. Boyleon Colours MisTLETO'E. #./. [myyzelzan miflel, Danith, bird lime, an twig. A plant Saxon zan, The flower of the miftletoe confifts of one leaf which is fhaped like a bafon, divided into fou parts, aad befet with warts; the ovary which i produced in the female flowers is placed in a remot part of the plant from the male fiowers, and confift of four fhorter leaves ; this becomes a round berr full ofa glutinous fubftance, inclofing a plain heartthaped feed: this plant is always produced fro feed, and is not to be culti rated in the earth, bu will always grow upon t e om whence th ancients accounted it a fup a nt, who though it to be an excrefcence on t Cts+ ree without feed Th manne of it propagatio miftletoe thruth, whic fe dot fometime follows pon the be plant in winter when it is ripe from tree t berry, whic is a doth open the fee tree; for the vifcous part of th immediatel furrounds the feed fafte it to th outwar the bird's beak, which, to get dif ftrikes his beak at the branches of a tree cou th part o d of, h :bj)uri.n and fo leaves the feed ficki ¢ this vifmatter to the bark, which, if it lights upo a fmooth part of the tree, will' faften itfelf, an the following winter put out and grow: the trec which this plant doth moft readily take upon ar the apple, the ath, and fome other fmooth rin trees : whenever a branch of an oak tree hath an 7 o |