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ries.of Tegea and Sparta. Both defiles were known by 
the name of Hermeum, from a ftatue of Mercury which 
was placed in a central part of each.. 
The people of Mifitra and the neighbourhood, though 
not quite fo independent as their countrymen on the 
hills, are much lefs in a ftate of fubjedtion to the Turks 
than the Greeks to the northward. M. Pouqueville thus 
defcribes them : “ They are tall in (lature, their features 
are mafculine and regular; they are the only Greeks of 
the Morea who look up to the Turks with an eye of 
manly confidence, as if feeling themfelves their equals ; 
nor can this be otherwife, as they are brave even to ralh- 
nefs. Why am I obliged to add that they have an innate 
inclination to rapine, which, joined to a fort of natural 
ferocity, renders them extremely vindidtive and danger¬ 
ous ?” He adds ; “ The Laconians differ as much in 
manners as in drefs from the Arcadians their neighbours. 
The latter carry the fcrip and the crook, and lead a per¬ 
fectly paftoral life; the inhabitants of Sparta, on the con¬ 
trary, ling of combats, are of a lively and reftlefs character, 
and eafily irritated. The Arcadian, attached to his val¬ 
leys and his rivulets, fees nothing beyond his own ho¬ 
rizon : the Laconian, more haughty, endowed with greater 
energy, has no wifti fo dear to his heart as to fee the Turks 
humiliated. The one, clothed in white woollen fpun and 
woven by the hands of his wife and daughters, makes 
mats, draws the oil from his olives, preffes the juice from 
his grapes, milks his ewes and his goats, brings the pro¬ 
duce of his induftry to fell in the town, and, content with 
the little gains that they procure him, returns peaceably 
and contentedly to his bowers. His neighbour of Tay- 
getes manufactures arms, clothes himfelf with fluffs, the 
dark colours of which are emblematic of his character, 
handles the axe, mingles with caravans, goes on military 
expeditions, feeks dangers, and in them feems to find 
his true element.” 
To MISJUD'GE, v.n. To form falfe opinions; to judge 
ill.—By allowing himfelf in what is innocent, he breeds 
offence to his weak and misjudging neighbour. Atterbury. 
Too long misjudging have I thought thee wife; 
But lure relentlels folly fteels thy breaft. Pope. 
To MISJUD'GE, v. a. To miftake; to judge ill of.— 
Where we misjudge the matter, a mifcarriage draw's pity 
after it; but, when we are tranfported by pride, our ruin 
lies at our own door. L'Eftrange. 
MISJUD'GING, J\ The aCt of judging erroneoufly. 
MISJUD'GMENT, J\ Unjuft judgment; unjuft deter¬ 
mination.'—Nobody will dare to ceniure that popular part 
of the tribunal, whofe only reftraint on misjudgment is the 
cenfure of the public. Burke on a Regicide Peace. 
To MISKEN', v. a. To be ignorant of; to mifunder- 
ftand; not to know. 
MIS'KIN, f. A little bagpipe. Bailey. —Now would I 
tune my mijkins on this green. Drayton. 
To MISKIN'DLE, v. a. To inflame rafhly ; to animate 
to an ill purpofe.—Such is the mi/kindled heat of fome 
unruly fpirits. Bp. Hall. 
To MISKNO'W, v.a. NottoJcnow; to be ignorant 
of.—There is nothing in the world that they do more 
mijknow than themfelves. SeaJ'onable Sermons. 
MIS'KO, an ifland of Lower Canada, on the fouth- 
eaft fide of Chaleur Bay. 
MIS'KOTZ, a town of Hungary : thirty miles weft of 
Tokay. 
MISLA'VA, a town of Hungary : ten miles eaft of 
Libeten. 
To MISLAY', v. a. To lay in a wrong place.—The 
fault is generally mi/laid upon nature j and there is often 
a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want 
of a due improvement. Locke. 
Mean time my worthy wife our arms mijlay'd, 
And from beneath my head my fword convey’d. Drydcn. 
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MISLAY'ER, J. One that puts in the wrong place.— 
The mijluyer of a mere-ftone is to blame : but it is the 
unjuft judge that is the capital remover of land-marks, 
when he defineth amifs of lands and property. Bacon's 
Ejj'ays. 
MISLAY'ING, f. The aCt of mifplacing; of laying in 
the wrong place. 
To MIS'LE, Mizzle, or Meazle, v. n. To rain in im¬ 
perceptible drops, like a thick mill; properly mijlle.— 
The air feels more moift when the water is in fmall than 
in great drops ; in meazling and foaking rain than in great 
Ihowers. Arbuthnot on Air. —The very fmall drops of a 
mijling rain, defcending through a freezing air, do each 
of them fhoot into one of thole figured icicles. Grew's 
Cojmology. —This cold precipitates the vapours either in 
dews, or, if the vapours more copioully afcend, they are 
condenfed into mijling , or into Ihowers of fmall rain, 
falling in numerous, thick, fmall, drops. Derham's Phyjico- 
Theology. % 
Ynough thou mourned haft: 
Now ginnes to mizzle, hie we homeward faff, Speitfcr. 
In mijling days, when I my threlher heard. 
With nappy beer I to the barn repair’d. Gay. 
To MISLE'AD, v. a. preterite and part, paflive, mijlcd. 
To guide a wrong way ; to betray to mifchief or miftake. 
—The imagination, which is of limple perception, doth 
never of itfelf, and direCtly, mijlead us ; yet it is the almoft 
fatal means of our deception. Glanville's Scepjis. —What¬ 
ever necelfity determines to the purfuit of real blifs, the 
fame necelfity eftablilhes fufpence, and fcrutiny of each 
fuccelfive delire, whether the fatisfaCtion of it does not 
interfere with our true happincfs, and mijlead us from it. 
Locke. 
’Tis hard to fay, if greater w'ant of Ikill 
Appear in writing or in judging ill: 
But of the two lefs dangerous is th’ offence 
To tire our patience, than mijlead our fenfe. Pope. 
MISLE'ADER, J\ One that leads to ill.—They have 
dilclaimed and abandoned thofe heretical phantafies 
touching our Saviour, wherein by their mijleaders they had 
been anciently plunged. Brerewood on Languages. 
When thou dolt hear I am as I have been, 
Approach me, and thou (halt be as thou waft. 
The tutor and the feeder of nry riots ; 
Till then I banifh thee on pain of death, 
As I have done the reft of my mijleaders. Shakefpeare. 
MISLE'ADING, f. The act of leading wrong ; of de¬ 
ceiving. 
MISLEAR'NED, adj. Not really or properly learned. 
—Such is this which you have here propounded on the 
behalf of your friend, whom it feems a mijlearned advocate 
would fain bear up in a courfe altogether unjuftifiable. 
Bp. Hall. 
To MISLEE'KE, v. a. [feems for rhyme’s fake put fori 
Millike: 
But he the right from thence did thruft away ; 
For it was not the right which he did feeke j 
But rather ftrove extremities to way, 
Th’ one to diminilh, th’ other for to eeke : 
For of the meane he greatly did mijleeke. Spenfer. 
MIS'LEN, f. [See Mastlin.] Mixed corn : as, wheat 
and rye.—They commonly fow thofe lands with wheat, 
mi/len, and barley. Mortimer's Hujlandry. 
MIS'LETOE. See Mistletoe. 
To MISLI'KE, v.a. [mij-lician, Sax.J To difapprove; 
to be not pleated with; to diflike.—It was hard to fay, 
whether he more liked his doings, or mijlihed the eftedt of 
his doings. Sidney. 
Judge not the preacher, for he is thy judge : 
If thou mjlike him, thou conceiv’d him not. 
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Herbert. 
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