A·miss adv.  Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
    What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?   --Shak.
    Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss.   --James iv. 3.
 To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at; to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.