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Gamester :: Gamester (n.) A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games..

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off..

Fraise :: Fraise (n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.

Pile :: Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc..

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road..

Misween :: Misween (v. i.) To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken.

Yead :: Yead (v. i.) Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede..

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..

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

Bracket :: Bracket (n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet..

Scare :: Scare (n.) Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake..

Disabuse :: Disabuse (v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.

Misobedience :: Misobedience (n.) Mistaken obedience; disobedience.

Asparagus :: Asparagus (n.) A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens..

Accuracy :: Accuracy (n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy..

Rover :: Rover (v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball..

Misobserve :: Misobserve (v. t.) To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.

Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To take or choose wrongly.

Picket :: Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake..

Double :: Double (v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.

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