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Mistakenly :: Mistakenly (adv.) By mistake.

Hyacinth :: Hyacinth (n.) The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru..

Rectify :: Rectify (v. t.) To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders..

Wear :: Wear (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish..

Sweepstake :: Sweepstake (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes.

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants..

Mistaken :: Mistaken (p.a.) Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken..

Martingal :: Martingal (n.) 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..

Crawl :: Crawl (n.) A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish..

Error :: Error (n.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Set :: Set (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture..

Ante :: Ante (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins..

Swoopstake :: Swoopstake (n.) See Sweepstake.

Stockaded :: Stockade (v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes..

Stakehead :: Stake-driver (n.) The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen..

Welter :: Welter (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes..

Adventure :: Adventure (n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat..

Impalement :: Impalement (n.) An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed..

Raddle :: Raddle (n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence..

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