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To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.

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.

One who leads into error.

Leading astray; delusive.

To learn wrongly.

of Mislead.

See Maslin.

See Mistletoe.

Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting. -- Be*guil"ing*ly, adv.

To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin. Genius . . . often betrays itself into great errors. T. Watts.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.

ce; instruction. I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised. Shak. It was ill counsel had misled the girl. Tennyson.

disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud. Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit. Amos viii. 5. Friendly to man,…

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.

Subject to deceit; capable of being misled. Blind, and thereby deceivable. Milton.

Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child.

error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2 Tim. iii. 13. Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. What can 'scape the eye Of God al…

The act of deceiving or misleading. South.