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Bjra divine inllinft, men’s minds mijlrufl 
Enfuing danger; as by proof we fee, 
The waters lvvell before aboifterous ilorm. Shahcjpcttrt. 
Fate her own book mijirujled at the fight s 
On that fide war, on this a fingle fight. Cowley. 
MISTRUST'FUL, adj. Diffident; doubting? 
I hold it cowardice 
To reft mijlnijful , where a noble heart 
Hath pawn’d an open hand in fign of love. Shahejpeare. 
MISTRUSTFULLY, adv. With fufpicion ; with mif- 
truil. 
MISTRUSTFULNESS,./: Diffidence; doubt.—With¬ 
out him I found a weaknefs and a mijlrujlfulnejs of my- 
fftf, as one ftrayed from his beft ftrength, v hen at any 
time I iriift him. Sidney. 
MISTRUSTING, f. The aft of fufpefting. 
MISTRUSTTNGLY. adv. With miftruft. Huloet, 
MISTRUSTLESS, adj. Confident ;■ unfufpefting ? 
The fwain, mi/lrujilefs of his fmutted face. 
While fecret laughter titter'd round the place. GoldfmitJt. 
To MISTU'NE, c. a. To'tune amifs; to put out of 
tune.—Any inftrument tnifiumjd lhall hurt a true fong. 
Shelton's Poems. 
MISTU'NED, adj. Badly, tuned ; put out of tune. 
To MISTUR'N, v. a. To pervert. Obfolete. —Them 
that wolen myjlume the evangelie of Chrift. Wicliffe. 
To MISTU'TOR, v. a. To inllruft amifs: 
The gay mijhitor'd youths, who ne’er the charm 
Of virtue hear, nor wait at wifdom's door. Edwards. 
MISTY, adj. Clouded ; overfpread with mills.—Pa¬ 
rents overprize their children, while they behold them 
through the vapours of affeftion, which alter the appear¬ 
ance, as things feem bigger in mijhj mornings. Wot ton. 
Now fmoaks with fhow’rs the mijhj mountain-ground, 
And floated fields lie undiftinguilh’d l’ound. Pope. 
Obfcure; dark; not plain. 
MISTY, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania : 
fifty miles foutli of Yurcup. 
MISTYLAVv', a mountain of Scotland, in the county 
of Renfrew : feven miles fouth of Port Glafgow. 
To MISUNDERSTAN'D, v. a. To mifconceive ; to 
millake.—The example of a good man is the bell direc¬ 
tion we can follow in the performance of our duty; the 
moll exaft rules and precepts are fubjeft to be mijunder- 
Jfood; fome at leall will millake their meaning. Rogers's 
Sermons. 
MISUNDERSTANDING, f. Difl'enfion ; difference ; 
dil'agreement.—There is a great mifunderftanding betwixt 
the corpufcular philofophers and the chemills. Boyle. — 
Error; milconception.—Sever the conitruftion of the in¬ 
jury from the point of contempt, imputing it to mijunder- 
Jlanding or fear. Bacon. 
MISU'SAGE, f. Abufe; ill ufe.—But, if the name of 
God be prophaned by the difelteeme and mifufage of the 
things it is called upon, then furely it is fanftified when 
the fame are worthily and diferiminately ufed, that is, as 
becometh the relation they have to him. Mede's Diatr. 
For Palinode (if thou him ken) 
Yode late on pilgrimage 
To Rome, if fuch be Rome, and then 
He law thilk mifufage. Spenfer's July. 
Bad treatment. 
To MISU'SE, v. a. To treat or ufe improperly; to abufe. 
— Machiavel makes it appear, that the weaknefs of Italy, 
once fo llrong, was cauled by the corrupt pradlices of the 
papacy, in depraving and miffing religion. South. 
Bacchus, that firft from out the purple grape 
Crulh’d the fweet poifon of miffed wine. Milton. 
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MISU'SE, f. Evil or cruel treatment : 
Upon whofe dead corpfe there was fuch mifuje, 
Such bealtly lhamelefs transformation, 
By thofe Wellh women done, as may not be 
Without much lhame retold. Shakefpeare's Henry I\f. 
Wrong or erroneous ufe.—How names taken for things 
millead the.underllanding, the attentive reading of philo- 
fophical writers would dilcover, and that in words little 
fufpedted of any fuch mifuje. Locke. —Mifapplication ; 
abufe.—We have reafon to humble ourfelves before God 
by falling and prayer, left he Ihould punilh the mifuje of 
our mercies, by Hopping the courfe of them. Atterbury. 
MISU'SER, f. [a law term.) Abufe.—An office either 
public or private may be forfeited by miffer or abufe : as 
if a judge takes a bribe, or a park-keeper kills deer with¬ 
out authoritv. Blaehjlo-ne. 
MISU'SING,./: The aft ofufing ill. 
MIS'WALDE, a town of Pruffia, in the province ObeG 
tand : eighteen miles louth of Elbing. 
To MISWEA'R, v. n. To wear ill.—That which is mif- 
Wrought will mijwear. Bacon's Charge at the Seffions of the 
Verge. 
To MISWEE'N, v. n. To misjudge; to diltrull. Objolete: 
Latter times things more unknown lhall Ihow ; 
Wliy then Ihould witlefs man fo much mijwcen? Spcnfer. 
MISWEE'NED, part. pajf. of Misween. —Millaken c 
Whom ihe had caus’d be kept as prifonere 
By Arthegail, mifween'd for her own knight 
That brought her back. Spenfer. 
MISWEE'NING, f. Wrong notion 
Beware of fraud, beware of fickleneffe 
In. choice and chaunge of thy deare-loved dame* 
Left thou of her believe too lightly blame, 
And ralh mifwecning doe thy hart remove. Spenfer. 
To MISWEN'D, v.n. To go wrong. Objolete— Things 
mifcounfelled mull needs mifwend. Spenfer's Hubb. Tale. 
In this maze Hill wand’red and mi/went: 
For heaven decreed to conceal the fame. 
To make the milcreant more to feel his lhame. Fairfax. 
To MISWRITE, v. a. To write incorrectly.—He con 
refteth the word that was mifvritten there. Bp. Cofin. 
MIS WRITING,_/! The aft of writing amifs, or wrong; 
a millake in writing. 
MISWROU'GHT, part. Badly worked.—That which 
is mfwrought will mifwear. Bacon's Charge at the Sejions 
of the Verge. 
MI'SY, J'. in natural hiltory, the name of a foffil fub- 
llance, ufed very frequently by the ancients in medicine, , 
and fuppofed to be one of their now-loll medicines, but 
erroneoufly; it being Hill very common in the Turkilh 
dominions, and not unfrequently found in the mines of 
Cremnitzin Hungary. Itisaconfiderably-firm lubllance, 
though of an irregular and feemingly not-compaft tex¬ 
ture, and much relembles fome of our gaudy marcalites.; 
but that it wants their hardnefs and their weight, and is 
not inflammable. It is at prefent no-where put to any 
ufe. The ancients elleemed it of the fame nature with 
the chalcitis, but that it poffeffed thofe virtues in a more 
remifs degree ; they had it from Egypt and Cyprus, and 
ufed it externally in haemorrhages, and fome cutaneous 
eruptions. 
MI'SY, f. in botany, a name given by Theophraftus, 
and all the old Greek writers, to a kind of truffle, or fub- 
terranean mulhroom, of a very delicate flavour. The 
truffles of Numidia, and fome other parts of Africa, were 
always elleemed fuperior to thofe of any other part of the 
world. They are called terfez , camaha, or Itema, by fome 
later writers; and were brought to Rome, and lb greatly 
elleemed, that no difli was ranked above them. Thcle 
were called Lybian truffles by the Romans, and they feem 
to have been the lame with the Cyrenean mijy of the Greeks, 
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