Mis*sem"blance (?), n. False resemblance or semblance. [Obs.]

Mis*send" (?), v. t. To send amiss or incorrectly.

Mis*serve" (?), v. t. & i. To serve unfaithfully.

Mis*set" (ms*st"), v. t. To set or place wrongly.

Mis*shape" (?), v. t. To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from

to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.

Mis*shap"en (?), a. Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are

misshapen." Bentley.

-- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n.

Mis*sheathed" (?), a. Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed

in a wrong place. Shak.

Mis*sif"i*cate (?), v. i. [LL. missa Mass + -ficare (in comp.) to make.

See fy- .] To perform Mass. [Obs.] Milton.

Mis"sile (?), a. [L. missils, fr. mittere, missum, to cause to go, to

send, to throw; cf. Lith. mesti to throw: cf. F. missile. Cf. Admit,

Dismiss, Mass the religious service, Message, Mission.] Capable of

being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or

from any instrument or engine, so as to strike an object at a distance.

We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart.

Pope.

Mis"sile, n. [L. missile.] A weapon thrown or projected or intended to

be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.

Miss"ing (?), a. [From Miss, v. i.] Absent from the place where it was

expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked

for.

Neither was there aught missing unto them.

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