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To learn wrongly.

of Mislead.

See Maslin.

See Mistletoe.

Afraid. [Obs.] Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises. Shak.

A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.

To reach; to come to. [Archaic] Ere he arrive the happy isle. Milton. Ere we could arrive the point proposed. Shak. Arrive at last the blessed goal. Tennyson.

g him. I should say science was atheous, and therefore could not be atheistic. Bp. of Carlisle.

Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.

Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.

Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia. Balearic crane. (Zoöl.) See Crane.

or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting. -- Be*guil"ing*ly, adv.

To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin. Genius . . . often betrays itself into great errors. T. Watts.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak.

A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.