n. 1. (Billiards) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To make a mistake; especially to fail to execute a necessary or expected action at the proper time, such as making a play in sports, or saying one's line in a drama. [ PJC ]

v. t. & i. 1. To calculate erroneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To judge wrongly, especially about the effects of action or the likely course of events. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. a mistake in calculating.
Syn. -- misreckoning, misestimation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. An error in judgment, especially about the effects of action or the likely course of events; as, IBM's miscalculation about the impact of microcomputers cost them many billions in lost opportunities; Sadam's invasion of Kuwait was only his worst, but not his last, miscalculation. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. To call by a wrong name; to name improperly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call by a bad name; to abuse. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a proper or desired result or reach a destination; as, a serious miscarriage of justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a counselor, to save himself,
Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of bringing forth a child before the time it is viable; a premature birth, resulting in death of the fetus; spontaneous abortion. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Miscarried p. pr. & vb. n. Miscarrying. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

My ships have all miscarried. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring forth young before the time they are viable; to have a spontaneous abortion. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. To cast or reckon wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An erroneous cast or reckoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to marry or cohabit with a person of another race. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. miscere to mix + the root of genus race. ] A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white. Until the late twentieth century, misceganation was a crime in some states of the Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]