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ith honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. Rambler. Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made honorable by the Common wealth. Hobbes.

ified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.

. To impose on or upon, to pass or put a trick on; to delude. "He imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things." Locke.

That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.

eing inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence. Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. Jer. Taylor.

Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly. Glanvill.

Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden.

n or induction. Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference. Glanvill.

. -- Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.

An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. Blackstone.

he stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

uty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake. To lapse in fullness Is sorer than to lie for need. Shak.

ed; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible modes of existence in the universe. J. S. Mill.

scovery, many scholars lost their heads. Whitney. -- To lose one's self. (a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city. (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep. -- To lose sight of. (a) To cease to see; as…

ulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour. We doubt not of a fair and lucky war. Shak.

A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person. When a man mistakes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad. A madman is properly so defined. Coleridge.

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

A mistake in charging.

A mistaken claim.

Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] Bp. Hall.