mister

1. (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.obsolete

2. (now rare, dialectal) A kind, type of.Examples: "The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast, To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd[…]."; "What mister-chance hath brought thee to the field Without thy sheepe?"; "For als he been a mister wight Betray'd by wandering in the night To tread the circled haunt;"archaicdialectal

3. (obsolete) Need (of something).Examples: "He is richt gude, Ane man of wealth and nobill blude, Bot hes mair mister of ane Hude."; "England, that stands muckle in mister of a Reformation."; "Now is over lait to preis my freind indeid , Quhan that I have sik mister, and sik neid: Better had bene be tyme I had overtane, To preis my freind, quhen mister had I nane."obsolete

4. (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.Examples: "That the portis be mendytt and lokit and reformit as mister is."; "Which works the church had in its treasury to sell at mister."; "When his Máster shall say, Ha Sir, I know you well enough; ye did speak indeed but never in a mister; ye did sneak, as they use to say, when none speired at you, ye were stout then;"obsolete

1. (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.Examples: "As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well."; "I mister not to write mair of Bissiness to zour Lordschip; bot, as I hear, how soon the Compris of thair Factoris is hard, that thai will gif thame new Commissionis again, or utheris in thair Placis."impersonalobsolete

1. A general title of respect for an adult male.Examples: "Will Mister Robert be staying for dinner?"

2. (colloquial, sometimes hostile, sometimes written 'mister') Used by itself as a familiar term of address to a man whose name is unknown, or sometimes even if the name is known.Examples: "'Scuse me Mister, do you have the time?"; "Now you listen to me, Mister. If I see you round here again, there'll be trouble."colloquial