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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Misluk, n. Also: -luk(k)e, -luck. [e.m.E. (1623).] Ill luck, misfortune. b. A piece of ill luck, a misfortune, mishap.1581-1623 James VI Poems II. 27/23.
No maner of mislukke my staite shall haue 1606 Melrose P. 12.
Oure misluke could neuer haue fund any excuse 1611 Reg. Panmure I. xciii.
Jhone wes thought ane infortunat nem in ane kinge, be ressone of the gryt misluk of Jhone Balliole ? 1614 Melrose P. 137.
The money … is cum slowlie in, be the pouertie of the tenentis, and be misluk Ib. 163. 1629 Justiciary Cases I. 99.
No deidis lybellit … quhairby scho sould haif procuret his misluk Ib. 102. 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 339.
Hard fate and misluck it may be called, a dissastrous defeatb. 1624 Hist. Carnegies I. 90.
Try this misluck, for I got preiudice thairby 1629 Justiciary Cases I. 107.
Mony mislukis may befall to the kirneing of butter
