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A mistake in copying. North Am. Rev.

Mistaken devotion.

Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.

The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

To have a mistaken notion of or about. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton.

Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] Milton.

To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.

A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints.

To mistake. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. [Archaic] Fuller. The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. Hare.

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

Mistake; error; fault. Shak. He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. Ascham.

Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. Shak.

Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived. Sir T. Browne.

An error; a mistake. Shak.

Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error. [Obs.] Spenser.

of Mistake.

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon.