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_Mister'd_, reduced to difficulties, S. B.
_To_ ~Mister~, ~Mystre~, _v. n._
1. To be necessary.
_Barbour._
2. To be in straits.
_Balfour._
~Mystir~, _adj._ Necessary.
_Barbour._
~Mistirful~, _adj._ Necessitous.
_Douglas._
~Mistry~, _s._ Strait.
_Barbour._
MISTLIE, _adj._
1. Dull, solitary, from the absence of some object to which one is attached. Loth. Roxb.; also _misslie_.
_Gl. Sibb._
2. Bewildered on a road, Roxb.
3. Dreary, ibid. _Eerie_ synon.
From Su. G. _mist-a_, to want, and _lik_ expressing state or resemblance: or Teut. _misselick_, incertus in quo errare potest. This closely corresponds with sense 2.
_To_ MISTRAIST, _v. n._ To mistrust.
V. ~Traist~.
_Wallace._
_To_ MISTRYST, _v. a._ To break an engagement with, S.
V. ~Tryst~.
_Gl. Sibb._
_To_ MISTROW, _v. a._
1. To suspect, to mistrust.
_Barbour._
2. To disbelieve.
_Wyntown._
Isl. _misstru-a_, Belg. _mistrouw-en_, id.
~Mistrowing~, _s._ Distrust.
Belg. _mistrowen_, id.
_Barbour._
_To_ MYTH, _v. a._ To measure.
_Douglas._
A. S. _met-an_, metiri.
_To_ MYTH, MYITH, _v. a._
1. To mark.
Isl. _mid-a_, loc.u.m signo.
_Wallace._
2. To shew.
_Gawan and Gol._
~Myth~, _s._ A mark.
V. ~Meith~.
MITH, MEITH, _aux. v._ Might, S. B.
Su. G. _matha_, id.
_s.h.i.+rrefs._
