Definition of Missend

1. v. t. To send amiss or incorrectly.

Definition of Missend

1. Verb. (transitive) To send incorrectly or to the wrong destination. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Missend

1. to send incorrectly [v -SENT, -SENDING, -SENDS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Missend

misseeks
misseem
misseemed
misseeming
misseems
misseen
missees
missegregation
missel
missel thrush
misseldine
missels
misseltoe
misseltoes
missemblance
missend (current term)
missending
missends
missense
missense mutation
missense mutations
missenses
missent
misserve
misserved
misserves
misserving
misses
misseses
misset

Literary usage of Missend

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"It bears a six- celled berry, flavored like raspberry, seated in a permanent yellow bell-shaped calyx. Smith, Diet Economic Plants. missend (mis-send'), ..."

2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1846)
"Sometimes blunders are made in casting figures on the way-bills by an inexperienced arithmetician, but to lose or missend a letter might justly be ..."

3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"Sometimes blunders arc made in casting figures on the way-bills by an inexperienced arithmetician, but to lose or missend a letter might justly be ..."

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