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To take a wrong step; to go astray.

To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To go wrong; to go astray. [Obs.] "The world is miswent." Gower.

e; as, an observant spectator; observant habits. Wandering from clime to clime observant stray'd. Pope.

upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge.

To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. Shak.

n from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words. Dryden. He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve. Milton.

A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.

An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.

To portray; to draw. [Obs.] Spenser.

To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] Shaftesbury.

An ornamental tray, dish, or the like, used as a salver.

One who betrays or abuses a trust. Prynne.

To go or stray at random. [Obs.]

s letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc. [Eng.]

To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.

To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.

wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury. Revenge now goes To lay a complot to betray thy foes. Shak. The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Kames.

ers shall fall, And one promiscuous ruin cover all; Nor, after length of years, a stone betray The place where once the very ruins lay. Addison. The labor of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character. Buckminster.