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misˈluck, n. Chiefly Sc.
[mis-1 4.]
Misfortune.
1623J. Wodroephe Marrow Fr. Tongue 301 It was his Mislucke to marry that wicked Wife. 1647Hexham, Een misluck, a Mishap, or a Misluck. 1711Countrey-Man's Let. to Curat 84 But the Misluck is, he did not believe himself. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. i. (1877) II. 47 Wha can help misluck?
So misˈluck v. intr., to meet with misfortune.
1647Hexham, Mislucken, to Misluck, to Mishap. 1808Jamieson, To Misluck, to miscarry, not to prosper. 1855Carlyle Misc. Ess., Prinzenraub (1857) IV. 343 They are to ride by two different roads towards Bohemia, that if one misluck, there may still be another to make terms. |