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A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.] Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. Shak.

Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.

m of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.

e, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.

The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake, And drink enough, he need not fear his stake. B. Jonson.

splended; shining; as, brilliant talents. Washington was more solicitous to avoid fatal mistakes than to perform brilliant exploits. Fisher Ames.

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. [Cant] Johnson.

Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments. [Obs.]

To mistake for another; to identify falsely.

A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

413). If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp.

battle; to prepare for action. -- To sweep the deck (Card Playing), to clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them.

n unto the hells. Udall. Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller.

To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.] Hudibras.

A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in