Mist
Bible Usage:
- mist used 3 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 2:6
- Last Reference: 2 Peter 2:17
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
MIST, noun [Latin mixtus, mistus, from misceo, to mix.]
1. Water falling in very numerous, but fine and almost imperceptible drops.
A mist is a multitude of small but solid globules, which therefore descend.
2. That which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
His passion cast a mist before his sense.
MIST, verb transitive To cloud; to cover with vapor.
MISTA'KABLE, adjective That may be misconceived or mistaken.
MISTA'KE, verb transitive To take wrong; to conceive or understand erroneously; to misunderstand or misapprehend.
'Tis to mistake them costs the time and pain.
1. To take one thing or person for another.
We mistake the eloquence of self-apology for the animation of conscious integrity.
A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it.
MISTA'KE, verb intransitive To err in opinion or judgment.
Servants mistake and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends.
MISTA'KE, noun An error in opinion or judgment; misconception.
Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake
1. A slip; a fault; an error. There is a mistake in the account or in the date.
MISTA'KEN. In the use of this participle, there is a peculiarity which ought to be carefully noticed. When used of persons, it signified to be in an error, to be wrong; as, I am mistaken you are mistaken he is mistaken But when used of things, it signified misunderstood, misconceived; as, the sense of the passage is mistaken that is, not rightly understood.
MISTA'KER, noun One that mistakes or misunderstands.
MISTA'KING, participle present tense Making a mistake; erring from the truth; misconceiving.
MISTA'KING, noun An error; a mistake.
MISTA'KINGLY, adverb Erroneously; falsely.
MISTAUGHT', participle passive Wrongly taught; as a mistaught youth.
MISTE'ACH, verb transitive [See Teach.] To teach wrong; to instruct erroneously.
MISTE'ACHING, participle present tense Instructing erroneously.
MISTELL', verb transitive [See Tell.] To tell erroneously.
MISTEM'PER, verb transitive To temper ill; to disorder.
MISTEM'PERED, participle passive Tempered ill.
MIST-ENCUM'BERED, adjective Loaded with mist.
MIS'TER, noun The common title of address to gentlemen, and to men of all classes. In writing, it is expressed by the abbreviation Mr.
MIS'TER, verb transitive To occasion loss. [Not in use.]
MISTERM', verb transitive To term or denominate erroneously.
MISTERM'ED, participle passive Wrongly denominated.
MISTERM'ING, participle present tense Denominating erroneously.
MIST'FUL, adjective Clouded with mist.
MISTHINK', verb intransitive [See Think.] To think wrong. [Little used.]
MISTHOUGHT', participle passive of misthink. Thought wrong of.
Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear.
MISTI'ME, verb transitive To time wrong; not to adapt to the time.
MISTI'ME, verb intransitive To neglect the proper time.
MISTI'MED, participle passive Ill timed; done at a wrong time.
MISTI'MING, participle present tense Ill timing; doing unseasonably.
MIST'INESS, noun [See Mist.] A state of being misty; a state of thick rain in very small drops.
MISTI'TLE, verb transitive To call by a wrong title or name.
MISTI'TLED, participle passive Wrongly named.
MISTLE, verb intransitive mis'l. [from mist.]
To fall in very fine drops, as rain. [See Missle.]
MISTLETOE
MIST'LIKE, adjective Resembling mist.
MISTOLD, participle passive Erroneously told. [See Tell.]
MISTOOK', preterit tense of mistake.
MISTRA'IN, verb transitive To train or educate amiss.
MISTRANSLA'TE, verb transitive To translate erroneously.
MISTRANSLA'TED, participle passive Erroneously rendered into another language.
MISTRANSLA'TING, participle present tense Translating incorrectly.
MISTRANSLA'TION, noun An erroneous translation or version.
MIS'TRESS, noun [Latin magistra.]
1. A woman who governs; correlative to servant, slave, or subject.
My mistress here lies murdered in her bed.
2. The female head of a family.
3. That which governs; a sovereign. Rome was mistress of the world.
4. One that commands, or has possession and sovereignty. The queen is mistress of the Indies.
5. A female who is well skilled in any thing; as, she is mistress of arithmetic.
6. A woman teacher; an instructress of a school.
7. A woman beloved and courted.
8. A woman in keeping for lewd purposes.
9. A term of contemptuous address.
MIS'TRESS, verb transitive To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
MIS'TRESS-SHIP, noun Female rule or dominion.
MISTRUST', noun Want of confidence or trust; suspicion.
MISTRUST', verb transitive To suspect; to doubt; to regard with jealousy or suspicion.
Fate her own book mistrusted at the sight.
MISTRUST'ED, participle passive Suspected.
MISTRUST'FUL, adjective Suspicious; doubting; wanting confidence in.
MISTRUST'FULLY, adverb With suspicion or doubt.
MISTRUST'FULNESS, noun Suspicion; doubt.
MISTRUST'ING, participle present tense Suspecting; having no confidence in.
MISTRUST'INGLY, adverb With distrust or suspicion.
MISTRUST'LESS, adjective Unsuspecting; unsuspicious.
MISTU'NE, verb transitive To tune wrong or erroneously; to put out of tune.
MISTURN', verb transitive To pervert. [Not used.]
MISTU'TOR, verb transitive To instruct amiss.
MIST'Y, adjective [from mist.] Overspread with mist; filled with very minute drops of rain; as misty weather; a misty atmosphere; a misty night or day.
1. Dim; obscure; clouded; as misty sight.