Chapter MELIQUE VERIDO to MISSAL of M by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

MISSAL, s. Hind. from Ar. misl, meaning ‘similitude.’ The body of documents in a particular case before a court. [The word is also used in its original sense of a ‘clan.’] [1861.—“The martial spirit of the Sikhs thus aroused … formed itself into clans or confederacies called Misls. …”—Cave-Brown, Punjab and Delhi, i. 368.]