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One who leads into error.

An error in pleading.

Mistake; error; fault. Shak. He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. Ascham.

A wrong step; an error of conduct.

To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends. Swift.

Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.

An error; a mistake. Shak.

Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error. [Obs.] Spenser.

Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon.

A bugbear; false terror. [Obs.] Jonhson.

ion on them. Matt. ix. 36. [The use of images] in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror. Felton.

In certain games, to score against, or take an advantage over (an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by saying "muggins."

ay neglicted, disregarded, or left out of consideration. Within very negligible limits of error. Sir J. Herschel.

sons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.

A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc.

Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation. "Lancelot and I are out." Shak. Wicked men are strangely out in the calculating of their own interest…

g was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser.

Too capable. [R.] Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.

An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker.

adily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors. "Three persons palpable." P. Plowman. [Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Shak. -- Pal"pa*ble*ness, n. -- Pal"pa*bly, adv.