Noah Webster
Amiss
AMISS', adjective [a and miss. See Miss.]
1. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. [This adjective always follows its noun.]
2. adverb In a faulty manner; contrary to propriety, truth, law or morality.
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss James 4:3.
Applied to the body, it signifies indisposed; as, I am somewhat amiss to day.