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Word Meanings - MISSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 1 Sam. xxv. 7. For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long.

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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. 1 Sam. xxv. 7. For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. Milton.

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  • WASTEL
    A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
  • ERRABLENESS
    Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
  • ERRHINE
    A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.
  • MISSEL
    Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
  • WASTETHRIFT
    A spendthrift.
  • MISSIFICATE
    To perform Mass. Milton.
  • MISSTAYED
    Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
  • MISSILE
    A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
  • WANDERMENT
    The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
  • ERRANTRY
    1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. 2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • MISSPEND
    To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
  • WRONGOUS
    Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
  • MISSAY
    1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
  • FASTENER
    One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
  • WRONG
    1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
  • ERRANCY
    A wandering; state of being in error.
  • ASTRAY
    Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
  • MISSTATE
    To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.
  • ALKALI WASTE
    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • COMMISSARY
    An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
  • ABERRATE
    To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
  • SUPERREFLECTION
    The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • VERRUGAS
    An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
  • REMISS
    Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
  • SERR
    To crowd, press, or drive together. Bacon.
  • PROMISSORILY
    In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
  • OVERWASTED
    Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
  • TERRESTRIFY
    To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
  • REMISSLY
    In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
  • INERRABLE
    Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.
  • SUPERROYAL
    Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
  • BERRETTA
    A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics (more info) of L. birrus, birrum, a cloak to keep off rain, cf. Gr. tawny, red:
  • INTERREX
    An interregent, or a regent.
  • FERRIER
    A ferryman. Calthrop.
  • TERRICOLAE
    A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
  • OVERRULING
    Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
  • BISERRATE
    Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.

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