Miscarriage

1. n. The act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.
2. n. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
3. n. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.