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Alestake :: Alestake (n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a bush..

Vie :: Vie (v. i.) To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie..

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.

Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning..

Misconfident :: Misconfident (a.) Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.

Derby :: Derby (n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780..

Mistakenly :: Mistakenly (adv.) By mistake.

Empalement :: Empalement (n.) A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

Butter :: Butter (v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game..

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge..

Inerringly :: Inerringly (adv.) Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly..

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..

Stanchion :: Stanchion (n.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay..

Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.

Mistake :: Mistake (n.) An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.

Raffle :: Raffle (v.) A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.

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

Blunder :: Blunder (n.) A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance..

Misremember :: Misremember (v. t. & i.) To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.

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