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Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • MISSEL
    Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
  • 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.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • MISSPEND
    To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
  • MISSAY
    1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
  • MISSTATE
    To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.
  • MISSOUND
    To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • MISSIONER
    A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.
  • MISSPENDER
    One who misspends.
  • MISSPENT
    of Misspend.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • STAYSHIP
    A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • 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
  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • PROMISSORILY
    In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
  • 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.
  • REMISSLY
    In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • REMISSORY
    Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • REMISSIVE
    Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
  • EMISSITIOUS
    Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • PERMISSIBILITY
    The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.

 

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