Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Ill luck; misfortune.
- To meet, with ill luck; miscarry.
Wiktionary
- n. Ill luck; misfortune.
- v. intransitive To meet with ill luck; miscarry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Ill luck; misfortune.
Etymologies
- From mis- + luck. (Wiktionary)
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“The very same lot, also, with the like misluck, did betide the”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“The very same lot, also, with the like misluck, did betide the Emperor Gordian the younger.”
“He heard Æsop say, dryly, "Some men of Italy are fools," and might perchance have flamed again, to his misluck, but that Staupitz, breathing thickly in his ear, whispered: "Idiot, he mocks a Mantuan.”
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