Word Meanings - MISWROUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Badly wrought. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• WROUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer.
• BADLY
  In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously. Note: Badly is often used colloquially for very much or very greatly, with words signifying to want or need.
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• INWROUGHT
  Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim. Milton. I"o, n.; pl. Ios. Etym:
• ROUGHWROUGHT
  Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.
• OVERWROUGHT
  Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.
• BEWROUGHT
  Embroidered. B. Jonson.
• MISWROUGHT
  Badly wrought. Bacon.