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

Edder :: Edder (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together..

Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.

Spile :: Spile (n.) A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.

Pious :: Pious (a.) Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds..

Aright :: Aright (adv.) Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright..

Croupier :: Croupier (n.) One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

Trou-de-loup :: Trou-de-loup (n.) A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes..

Play :: Play (n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes..

Miss :: Miss (n.) Mistake; error; fault.

Well :: Well (a.) Good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as, it is well for the country that the crops did not fail; it is well that the mistake was discovered..

Land :: Land (v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes..

Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes..

Bridestake :: Bridestake (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round..

Misinterpretation :: Misinterpretation (n.) The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

Split :: Split (n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

Paxillose :: Paxillose (a.) Resembling a little stake.

Undeceive :: Undeceive (v. t.) To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake..

Game :: Game (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game..

Loggat :: Loggat (n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground..

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