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Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

Misworship :: Misworship (n.) Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion.

Goatsucker :: Goatsucker (n.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk..

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

Main :: Main (n.) A stake played for at dice.

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar..

Inadvertency :: Inadvertency (n.) An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence..

Uninterested :: Uninterested (a.) Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business..

Fallible :: Fallible (a.) Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible..

Empale :: Empale (v. t.) To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

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

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..

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

Misthought :: Misthought (n.) Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error.

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..

Depone :: Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager..

Clayes :: Clayes (n. pl.) Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments..

Pawn :: Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.

Pool :: Pool (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table..

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..

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