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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..

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

Wager :: Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge..

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes..

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

Grand :: Grand (superl.) Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Error :: Error (n.) A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error..

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

Hallucination :: Hallucination (n.) The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.

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

Stang :: Stang (n.) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.

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

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

Mislead :: Mislead (v. t.) To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

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