Search the Dictionary

The act of doubling, at each stake, that which has been lost on the preceding stake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness. [Cant] Thackeray.

The American bittern. See Stake-driver. (b) The American coot (Fulica). (c) The clapper rail. -- Meadow lark (Zoöl.), any species of Sturnella, a genus of American birds allied to the starlings. The common species (S. magna) has a yellow breast with a black crescent. -- Meadow mouse (Zoöl.), any mouse of the genus Ar…

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.

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.