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n good time. (a) Promptly; punctually; opportunely; not too soon nor too late. (b) (Mus.) Correctly; in proper time. -- To hold good, to remain true or valid; to be operative; to remain in force or effect; as, his promise holds good; the condition still holds good. -- To make good, to fulfill; to establish; to mainta…

he government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.

e joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping; sometimes, but incorrectly, applied to a separate piece fitted into two adjacent stones, or the like. Joggle joint (Arch.), a joint in any kind of building material, where the joining surfaces are made with joggles.

definite fraction of its value for a given rise or fall of temperature; -- sometimes less correctly styled Gay Lussac's law, or Dalton's law. -- Law of nations. See International law, under International. -- Law of nature. (a) A broad generalization expressive of the constant action, or effect, of natural conditions;…

To affirm incorrectly.

To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker.

To hear incorrectly.

To infer incorrectly.

To measure or estimate incorrectly.

To pronounce incorrectly.

To punctuate wrongly or incorrectly.

To quote erroneously or incorrectly. Shak.

To rehearse or quote incorrectly. Sir T. More.

To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.

To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly. Swift.

To send amiss or incorrectly.

To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.

To spell incorrectly.

To write incorrectly.