Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Amiss \A*miss"\, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.]
   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.