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Want of faith; distrust. "[Anger] born of your misfaith." Tennyson.

One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in rev. ii. 6, 15.

Too straitly or strictly. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison.

oubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. Shak.

One who, or that which, plaits.

or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. Sir J. Reynolds.

A portrait painter. [R.] Hamerton.

A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon.

A drawn game; specif. (Trente et quarante),

To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.

A portrait; a likeness. [Obs.] Whose fair retrait I in my shield do bear. Spenser.

A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie. [Southern U.S.]

3d pers. sing. pres. of Say. [Archaic]

The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock. [Scot.]

One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.

A long, rolling swell of the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.

Among Mohammedans:

Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law. Sinaitic manuscript, a fourth century Greek manuscript of the part Bible, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical critic; -- called also Codex Sinaiticus.