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MISDI'ET, f. Improper food : 
A dropfy through his flefh did flow, 
Which by mifdiet daily greater grew. Spcifer. 
MISDI'GHT, part. adj. Ill decked out: 
Her heart gan grudge for very deepe defpight 
Of fo unmanly mafk in mifery mifdight. SpenJ’er. 
To MISDIREC'T, v. a. To lead or guide amifs.—The 
vanity of mijdireded reafon. Burgefs on the Div. oj Chrift. 
His temper takes fome froward courfe. 
Till paflion, mijdirecled, fighs 
For weeds, or ifhells, or grubs, or flies. Shenfone. 
MISDIREC'TING, f. The aft of direfting wrong. 
To MISDISTIN'GUiSH, v. a. To make wrong diltinc- 
tions.—If we imagine a difference where there is none, 
becaufe we diftinguifh where we fhould not, it may not 
be denied that we mifdijlinguijh. Hooker. 
MISDISPOSI'TION, f. Inclination to evil.—Let him 
bewail his finfull mifdifpofition, and not dare to put forth 
his hand to this paffover till he have gathered the bitter 
herbs of a forrowful remorfe for his hated offences. Bp. 
Hall's Remains. 
l'o MISDO', v. a. To do wrong; to commit: 
Afford me place to fliow what recompence 
Towards thee I intend for what I have mijdone. Milton. 
To MISDO', v. n. To commit faults : 
I have mifdone, and I endure the fmart; 
Loth to acknowledge, but more loth to part. Dnjden. 
MISDO'ER,/ An offender; a criminal; a malefaftor. 
.—Were they not contained in duty with a fear of law, 
which inflifteth fharp punifhments to mifdoers, no man 
lhould enjoy any thing. Spenfer on Ireland. 
MISDO'ING,/. Offence ; deviation from right.—The 
worft is, to think ourfelves fafe lb long as we keep our 
injuries from the knowledge of men, and out of our own 
view, without any awe of that all-feeing eye that obferves 
all our mifdoings. L'EJlrange. 
To MISDOU'BT, v. a. To fufpeft of deceit or danger. 
—I do not mifdoubt my wife, but I would be loth to turn 
them both together; a man may be too confident. Sliakefp. 
The bird that hath been limed in a bufh, 
With trembling wings mijdoubteth every rufh. ShaheJ'pearc. 
MISDOU'BT, f. Sufpicion of crime or danger: 
He cannot fo precifely weed this land. 
As his mifdouhts prefent occafion ; 
His foes are fo enrooted with his friends, 
That, plucking to unfix an enemy, 
He doth unfalten fo and fliake a friend. Sliakefp. Hen. IV. 
Irrefolution; hefitation : 
York, fteel thy fearful thoughts, 
And change mifdoubt to refolution. Shahejpcare's Hen. VI. 
MISDOU'BTFUL, adj. Mifgiving: 
She gan to caft in her mfdoubtful mynde 
A thoufand feares. Spenfer. 
MISDOU'BTING, / [from amifs and doubt.'] The aft 
of fufpefting fomething amifs, as deceit or danger. 
MISDREAD',./ Dread of evil: 
Needs me then hope, or doth me need mifdread? 
Hope for that honour, dread that wrongful fpite. Bp.Hall. 
MISE,/. [French.] A law term. The French word 
flgnifies as much as expenjum in Latin ; and hence mife 
was ufed for difburfement, colls; and alfo for taxes ; and 
then for point and iffue.—Joining of the mife upon the 
nieer right is putting it to ifiue. Tenues de la Ley. —Coll.— 
MiJ'e flgnifies as much as expenfim: in the entries for 
judgments the entry is pro mijis and for colls. Termes de 
la Ley. 
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Mise allb flgnifies a tax or tallage, &c. An honorary 
gift, or cuflomary prefent, from the people of Wales t.p 
every new king or prince of Wales, anciently given in' 
cattle, wine, and corn, but now in money, being 5000I. 
or more, is denominated a mife: fo was the ufual tribute 
or fine of 300c rnerk? paid by the inhabitants of. the 
county palatine of Chefler at the change of every owner 
of the faid earldom, for enjoying their liberties. And at 
Chefler they have a mife-book, wherein every town and 
village in the county is rated what to pay towards the 
mife. The 27 Hen. VIII. c. 26. ordains that lords fhall 
have all fuch miles and profits of their lands as they had 
in times paft, &c. 
MI'SiE-MONEY, / Money given by way of contraft 
or compofition to purchafe any liberty, See. Blount. 
Ten. 162. 
MISE'ASE,/ Uneafinefs; wantofeafe. Obfolete. —The 
lond of mifefe and derknelfe, wheras is the Ihadowe of 
deth. Chaucer's Parfon's Tale. 
MISEDI'TION, / Not a genuine edition.—Following 
a mifedition of the Vulgar, which perverts the fenfe, by 
making a wrong Hop in the fentence. Bp. Halls Cafes of 
Confcience. 
MISELAR', an ifland in the Eaflern Indian Sea, of am 
irregular form, about eighteen miles long, and five broad, 
near the well coalt of Sumatra. Lat. 1.28. N. Ion. 97. 56. E< 
To MISEMPLOY', v.a. To ufe to wrong purpofes.— 
That vain and foolifh hope, which is mifemployed on tem¬ 
poral objefts, produces many forrows. Addifon's SpeCcator. 
Their frugal fathers’ gains they mijemploy. 
And turn to point and pearl, and ev’ry female toy. Dry den, 
MISEMPLOYING, f The aft of employing amifs, or 
to a wrong purpofe. 
MISEMPLOY'MENT, f. Improper application.—An 
improvident expence, and milemployment of their time and 
faculties. Hale's Origin of Mankind. 
MIS'EN. See Mizzen. 
MISEN'TRY, f. A wrong entry.—If a clerk had made 
a mifentry of record, the judge, before whom it was, might 
ore tenus reftify the mifentry, though a conliderable time 
after. Hale's P. C. 62. 
MISE'NUS, a fon of AIolus, who was piper to Heftor. 
After Heftor’s death he followed ./Eneas to Italy, and was 
drowned on the coafl of Campania, becaufe he had chal¬ 
lenged one of the Tritons. /Eneas afterwards found his 
body on the fea-fliore, and buried it on a promontory 
which bears his name, now Mifeno. There was alfo a 
town of the fame name on the promontory, at the well of 
the bay of Naples; and it had alfo a capacious harbour, 
where Auguftus and fome of the Roman emperors gene¬ 
rally kept Rationed one of their fleets. 
On this peninfula a villa was built by Caius Marius, 
with a degree of elegance that gave great offence to the 
more auflere among the Romans, who thought it ill 
fuited to the charafter of fo rough a foldier. Upon the 
fame foundation Lucullus, the plunderer of the eaflern 
world, erefted an edifice, in companion of which the for¬ 
mer houfe was a cottage; but even his magnificence was 
eclipfed by the fplendour of the palace which the empe¬ 
rors railed upon the fame fpot. To thefe proud abodes of 
heroes and monarchs, which have long been levelled to 
the ground, a few filhing-huts, as Mr. Swinburne in¬ 
forms us, and a lonely public-houfe, have fucceeded : 
hither boatmen refort to tipple perhaps on the identical 
lite where the voluptuous mailers of the world quaffed 
Chian and Falernian wines. 
MI'SER, / [Latin.] A wretched perfon ; one over¬ 
whelmed with calamity.—I wilh that it may not protm 
fome ominous foretoken of misfortune to have met with 
fuch a infer as I am. Sidney. 
Fair fon of Mars, that feek, with warlike fpoil 
And great ate’nievements, great yourfelf to make, 
Vouchfafe to flay your Heed for humble mifer's fake. Spcnf. 
7 F A wretch; 
