misle

From misled, the standard irregular past tense of mislead, being misconstrued as *misle + -ed.

I think Caspari has been misling you somewhat on the subject of Scenedesmus: the cells divide essentially as in Chlorella, but stay in 4 or 8-celled colonies until the next division.

1955 June, Ralph A. Lewin, “letter to Joshua Lederberg”, in Profiles in Science, U.S. National Library of Medicine:

The conduct of the agency coupled with the D. C. Office of Personnel amounts to misling [sic] the appellant as to her [sic] appeal rights to detrimentally rely upon the conduct of her [sic] agency.

1994, District of Columbia Register - Volume 41, Issues 1-5, page 423:

Very early I had a relationship to the language of transgression and subversion. i was not as precocious. when i was younger i didn't know when i was on the wrong side of the Law. my errors, my subversions, were unconscious, secreted and embraced somehow by my skin, nerves, blood, a body theatened by language which was slowly misling it.

1999, Susan Leslie Holbrook, Misled, →ISBN, page 37:

You're comparing calls for service to patrolling as a security guard, you know it and you should be ashamed for misling and lying.

1999 January 10, Bill, “Riverside Toxicology back! More hypocracy!”, in alt.law-enforcement (Usenet):

So Gordon Ramsay is misling his entire American audience? They never actually discuss the "garnish," but on the rare occasions when he yells at someone for screwing up a "garnish," it's always a potato or vegetable.

2014 March 21, Rob Bannister, “set as in set meal”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

Once again youse guys were misling me with "Asian" -- I wondered whether it might relate somehow to Singapore-Chinese "la," which serves a similar function.

2014 September 21, “Peter T. Daniels”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

(nonstandard, rare or humorous) To mislead.


outwind

en-verb

outwind (third-person singular simple present outwinds, present participle outwinding, simple past and past participle outwound)

outwinds (present singular third-person)
outwinding (participle present)
outwound (participle past)
outwound (past)

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they haue him enclosed so behind, / As by no meanes he can himselfe outwind

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Dear Psittacuse! when shalt thou once outwind / Thy self from this sad yoke?

1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Psychozoia, or The First Part of the Song of the Soul, Containing a Christiano-Platonicall Display of Life.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, canto II, stanza 71, page 25:

(transitive) To extricate by winding; to unloose.


overbrow

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbɹaʊ/

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)bɹaʊ/

For reasons of safety it was decided to drill off the overbrow and to blast it at one time to break 30,000 tons.

1948, The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin, page 10:

A projecting shelf of rock on the face of a cliff.


uncling

uncling (third-person singular simple present unclings, present participle unclinging, simple past and past participle unclung)

unclings (present singular third-person)
unclinging (participle present)
unclung (participle past)
unclung (past)

unleſſe it be the lowest lees of a canonicall infection livergrown to their fides; which perhaps will never uncling

1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

(obsolete) To cease from clinging or adhering.


superstrain

A strain (of a disease etc.) that comprehends several substrains.


techily

en-adv

techily (comparative more techily, superlative most techily)

more techily (comparative)
most techily (superlative)


two-legged

The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.

2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:

Because most of the animals had learned to distrust the two-leggeds, they shrank back into the forest.

2011, Allan J. Hamilton, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN:

It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds —human beings and birds— were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others.

2013, Vine Deloria, Vine Deloria, Jr., James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:

Someone or something with two legs, especially human beings.


Vth

From V (Roman numeral representing five) + -th (ordinal suffix).


coalite

en-verb

coalite (third-person singular simple present coalites, present participle coaliting, simple past and past participle coalited)

coalites (present singular third-person)
coaliting (participle present)
coalited (participle past)
coalited (past)

Back-formation from coalition, from Latin coalitus, past participle of coalēscō (see coalesce).

1792, Edmund Burke, a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland
Time has by degrees blended […] and coalited the conquered with the conquerors.

(obsolete, transitive) To cause to unite or coalesce.

Let them continue to coalite.

1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, "A Dissertation on Parties:

(obsolete, intransitive) To unite or coalesce.

(politics, rare) To form a political coalition.


shug

shugs (plural)
sug (alternative)
shoog (alternative)

I'll be with you in a moment, shug.


bowsman

From bow (“front of vessel”) + -s- + man.

Being the savage's bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale's back.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Monkey-Rope”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 355–356:

(nautical) A sailor who works in the bow of a vessel.


bewound

bewound (third-person singular simple present bewounds, present participle bewounding, simple past and past participle bewounded)

bewounds (present singular third-person)
bewounding (participle present)
bewounded (participle past)
bewounded (past)

(transitive) To wound all over; cover or afflict with wounds.


majorate

From major (noun) + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

af

(military) The office or rank of a major.


overwing

en-verb

overwing (third-person singular simple present overwings, present participle overwinging, simple past and past participle overwinged)

overwings (present singular third-person)
overwinging (participle present)
overwinged (participle past)
overwinged (past)

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)wɪŋ/

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈwɪŋ/

Souldiers therabout , which gather'd to him , were neer upon ten thousand ; and purposing with those not to deferr Battel , had chos'n a place narrow , and not to be overwing'd, on his rear a Wood

1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:


fistulate

Compare Latin fistulatus (“furnished with pipes”).


surview

From Middle English survewe, from Old French surveoir, sorveoir (“to look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch”); equivalent to sur- + view.

But if you vvill pleaſe to take a ſecond ſurvievv of the foure ſeverall particulars, vvherein the Caſes ſeemed to agree; you ſhall find very much diſparitie and diſproportion betvvixt the tvvo Caſes in each of the foure reſpects.

1619 April 27 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Saunderson [i.e., Robert Sanderson], “[Ad Clerum.] The First Sermon. At a Visitation at Boston, Linc[olnshire] 17. April. 1619.”, in Twelve Sermons, […], [new] edition, London: […] Aug[ustine] Math[ews], for Robert Dawlman, and are to be sold by Robert Allet, […], published 1632, →OCLC, §. 19, page 23:


merlion

/ˈmɜːˌlaɪən/

/ˌmɜːˈlaɪən/

Merlion Park
Singapore River
Singapore Tourism Board

From mer- + lion; sense 1 promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board as the name of a statue installed at the mouth of the Singapore River on 15 September 1972.

In 1995, a second Merlion was built on the island of Sentosa. This new Merlion is actually a 37-metre high panoramic tower, from which it is possible to view mainland Singapore and the Straits of Singapore[…]. A new "ancient legend" was created for this creature with this tower. The legend alleged that the Merlion landed on Sentosa and saved Singapore from a storm. It would save Singapore again if the island ran into trouble (according to a film in the Merlion Tower). […] Some locals are upset by this fabrication. The STB [Singapore Tourism Board] maintains that the Merlion reflects the combination of Singapore's national animal (the lion) and Singapore being an island. Many Singaporeans have come to accept this mythical creature as a quintessential symbol of Singapore. To the unaware tourists, the product was packaged in a convincing manner, with the legend, film clip, and chronotopic dimensions of when and where the Merlion supposedly visited Singapore.

2002, Can-Seng Ooi, Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, →ISBN, pages 109–110:

Like Changi Airport or the Merlion, Singlish is something that is quintessentially Singaporean. It is a dialect that everyone speaks and understands and is something that could provide the cornerstone for a unifying cultural identity.

2005, Neil Humphreys, chapter 11, in Notes from an Even Smaller Island: Singapore through a Young Brit’s Eyes, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN, page 174:

Yeah, well, he went into a tourist shop, not the one with postcards and plastic Merlions. That one ah, the one in here for the towkays and businessmen for conference centres. They sell gold-plated Merlions, Eiffel Towers and Empire State Buildings, you know.

2015, Neil Humphreys, chapter 9, in Marina Bay Sins, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN:

And in the fourteenth century / Because of Nila Utama's river mouth encounter with a merlion / The Lion City surged into being / And its people could travel the wide world

2015, Wong Yoon Wah, “Metamorphosis: Temasek”, in Jeremy Tiang, transl., edited by Gwee Li Sui with Tan Chee Lay, Sa'eda bte Buang, and Azhagiya Pandiyan, Singathology: 50 New Works by Celebrated Singaporean Writers, volume I (Life), Singapore: National Arts Council; Marshall Cavendish Editions, →ISBN, stanza 1 (Temasek):

At his favorite, familiar hotel on busy Orchard Road, he paid his fare, hefted his small bag and walked past the gorgeous garden with flowers and a fountain. Under the spray of water was a statue of the so-called merlion, the mythical beast that was the symbol of the tourist industry here. Its top half was a lion and the bottom half a fish. A couple of years ago, when he'd taken a stuffed merlion home to Lexi, she'd insisted on calling it Lion King Little Mermaid from her two favorite Disney movies at that time.

2016, Karen Harper, chapter 1, in Chasing Shadows (A South Shore Novel), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin MIRA, →ISBN:

(Singapore) Often Merlion: a symbolic creature having the head of a lion and the body of a fish, which is a national symbol of Singapore; an image, statue, or other depiction of this creature.


misrepair

en-noun

misrepair (countable and uncountable, plural misrepairs)

/mɪsɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/

It is clear that "misrepair" can occur by mechanisms which are not the same for all types of damage.

2012, Peter Cerutti, Anticarcinogenesis and Radiation Protection, page 325:

Lesions for which repair or misrepair systems exist will have increased probabilities of repair or misrepair as the time between lesion formation and DNA replication increases.

2013, A. D. Woodhead, Assessment of Risk from Low-Level Exposure to Radiation and Chemicals, page 178:

This suggests that the probability of misrepair increases with increasing dose.

2013, Oddvar F. Nygaard, Warren K. Sinclair, John T. Lett, Effects of Low Dose and Low Dose Rate Radiation, page 128:

Wang et al. suggest that ageing is the result of the accumulation of “misrepair.”

2017, P.K. Ray, Ageing a boon or a bane: Issues, Concerns and Remedies:

A repair that was done badly or wrongly.

(genetics) A faulty repair of DNA that produces genetic mutation.


upspeak

[...] the nurse answers in upspeak. “You can work on it only if you're supervised.” Even the Oil of Olay moisturizer is confiscated. “It's in a glass jar?” Upspeak again.

2012, Elizabeth Flock, But Inside I'm Screaming:

(linguistics) A manner of speaking in which the intonation of one's voice rises at the end of a statement, as if expressing uncertainty or asking a question; uptalk.


divel

divels (plural)
diuel (alternative)
Diuel (alternative)

(dialect or archaic) Alternative spelling of devil.


'ud

Well, that ‘ud be imposing, too, on Tellson’s. For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.

1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

[…] and figuring on where the engraved papers were going to come from that 'ud enable me to yank one of the bennies out of the eaves. Nobody ever saw me without an overcoat, and the right kind of an overcoat, […]

1902, Clarence Louis Cullen, More Ex-Tank Tales, page 32:

(dialectal) Nonstandard spelling of would.


defib

en-verb

defib (third-person singular simple present defibs, present participle defibbing, simple past and past participle defibbed)

defibs (present singular third-person)
defibbing (participle present)
defibbed (participle past)
defibbed (past)


mishold

mishold (third-person singular simple present misholds, present participle misholding, simple past misheld, past participle misheld or (archaic) misholden)

misholds (present singular third-person)
misholding (participle present)
misheld (past)
misheld (participle past)
misholden (archaic participle past)

From Middle English misholden, from Old English mishealdan (“not to keep, to neglect, be careless”), equivalent to mis- + hold.

inh

Kedang while attempting to catch hold of the safe, happened to mishold and fell in the lake where she was drowned; Saika's right hand was also in the safe, but it became stuck in its lid that she could no longer pull it out again.

1971, Hamlet Bareh, Khasi fables and folk-tales:

He says that wealth, along with sex and power, is the most sought after and misheld and misused by those who possess it.

This would help lower my anxiety and make certain that I would not mishold, or God forbid, drop the precious package.

2011, Neal L. Veldenax, Baby Boomer Female Names:

(transitive) To hold wrongly, badly, or amiss; lose hold (of); abuse; neglect.


mishold

There was no indecision, no mishold, no stone dislodged, and he possessed such marvellous breathing power, that on reaching a fair foothold he promptly turned and began to haul at the rope without pause or hesitation.

1896, Joseph Sanger Davies, Dolomite strongholds:

A misstep, mishold, a hundredth of an instant's lack of balance.

1930, Virginia Tracy, The moment after - Page 231:


soboles

A soboles is a [...] creeping under-ground stem, sending roots from one part and leaf-buds from another, as in Couch grass, […]

1851, John Hutton Balfour, A Manual of Botany, page 35:

Producing young plants from a soboles.

1860, Robert Fowler, The medical vocabulary, page 306:

(botany, archaic) A shoot that runs along underground and forms new plants at short distances.


Gillingham

en-proper noun

Gillingham (countable and uncountable, plural Gillinghams)

/ˈɡɪ.lɪŋ.əm/

From the Old English personal name *Gylla + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).

A town and civil parish in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST805265).

A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM411920).

unincorporated community
unincorporated community

An unincorporated community in the town of Marshall, Richland County, Wisconsin, United States.

A habitational surname from Old English.


misselect

en-verb

misselect (third-person singular simple present misselects, present participle misselecting, simple past and past participle misselected)

misselects (present singular third-person)
misselecting (participle present)
misselected (participle past)
misselected (past)


misselect

If the prediction is different, then a misselect has occurred.

1997, Proceedings - Page 97, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:

An occurrence or instance of misselection


colour coordinate

en-noun

colour coordinate (plural colour coordinates)

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color coordinate
color coordinate#English

Commonwealth standard spelling of color coordinate.


colour coordinate

en-verb

colour coordinate (third-person singular simple present colour coordinates, present participle colour coordinating, simple past and past participle colour coordinated)

colour coordinates (present singular third-person)
colour coordinating (participle present)
colour coordinated (participle past)
colour coordinated (past)


Gallipoli

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Sense 1 (“peninsula in Turkey”) is borrowed from Italian Gallipoli, from Turkish Gelibolu, and from its etymon Byzantine Greek Καλλίπολῐς (Kallípolĭs, “Kallipolis, former name of Gelibolu”) and late variant forms, from Ancient Greek κᾰ́λλος (kắllos, “beauty; beautiful person or thing; nobility”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“beautiful”)) + πόλις (pólis, “city; city-state”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tpelH- (“city; fortification”)). Doublet of Callipolis, Gelibolu, and Kallipolis.
Sense 2 (“town in Italy”) is borrowed from Italian Gallipoli, from Latin Callipolis, from Byzantine Greek Καλλίπολῐς (Kallípolĭs): see above.

doublet

And anyway, it strikes me that the blasted English use Anzacs as fodder for the enemy guns, putting them into places where they don't want to waste their own precious tropps. Look at the way that saber-rattling [Winston] Churchill sent our men into something as useless as Gallipoli! Ten thousand killed out of fifty thousand! Twice as bad as decimation.

1977, Colleen McCullough, “1921–1928”, in The Thorn Birds, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 40:

A peninsula in Turkey, north of the Dardanelles, between the Aegean and Marmara seas.

(by ellipsis, historical) The Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916) in World War I.


nublet

From nub (“variant of noob”) + -let (diminutive suffix).

affix

And all you EVA nublets, watch the series, THEN talk.

2006 March 8, Mo, “Neon Genesis Evangelion – wth?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

And, now that we think about it, reanimating the husks of fallen Avatar walkers with engineers and using them to literally rip apart the enemy's tank brigade gets across the fact that your opponent is, in fact, a little "nublet" who needs to "l2p."

2007, Game Informer Magazine: For Video Game Enthusiasts, volume 17, Minneapolis, Minn.: Sunrise Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 81:

When I was twelve, I spent endless hours in my basement blasting through hordes of nublets, perfecting my build order. Alas. Eight years, a high school diploma and most of undergrad later, I haven't changed a wink, and was eagerly anticipating the rebirth of arguably the best real time strategy game (RTS) of all time.

2010 November 1, Harrison Dahme, “Game Reviews: StarCraft II: The Long Awaited Sequel”, in Ruichen Zhu, editor, The Howl: Woodsworth College’s Bi-weekly Student Newspaper, volume III, number 5, Toronto, Ont.: Woodsworth College, archived from the original on 2016-04-01, page 8, column 1:

(Internet slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of nooblet (“an especially annoying or inexperienced noob (“newbie”)”).


seed down

en-verb

seed down (third-person singular simple present seeds down, present participle seeding down, simple past and past participle seeded down)

seeds down (present singular third-person)
seeding down (participle present)
seeded down (participle past)
seeded down (past)

In order to seed down a field it is first plowed deeply, and the soil well loosened — which is easy in these sandy soils — then pieces of the roots of lucern are planted 50 to 60 centimeters (20 to 24 inches) apart.

1908, Karl Frederic Kellerman, Robert Winthrop Pratt, Albert Elliott Kimberly, The Disinfection of Sewage Effluents for the Protection of Public Water Supplies, United States Department of Agriculture:


misstrike

misstrikes (plural)
mis-strike (alternative)

How much should an odd or unusual coin vary from the ordinary run to merit recognition as a misstrike or genuine accidental variety? […] Although die breaks are not considered by many as true oddities, other collectors are inclined to include them as freaks or errors belonging to the misstrike family.

1974, Brad Mills, chapter 16, in The Official Guide to Coin Collecting, New York: House of Collectibles, page 112:

(numismatics) A coin or medal with an irregularity, defect or error.


cawl

en-noun

cawl (countable and uncountable, plural cawls)

Borrowed from Welsh cawl, itself borrowed from Latin caulis (“stalk or stem of a plant, particularly a cabbage”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw(ǝ)l, *kh₂ulós, or *kowos (“tubular bone; pipe”). The English word is a doublet of caulis, cole, and kale.

der

A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.


poplit

An adaptation of poplit-, the oblique stem of the Latin poples (“the ham of the knee”, “the hough”, “the hock”; transferred sense, in general, “the knee”).

uder

The shallow depression (fossa) located at the back of the knee joint; the popliteal fossa or knee pit.


chole

(Indian cooking) Chickpeas, or a curry consisting mainly of chickpeas.


undervoice

en-verb

undervoice (third-person singular simple present undervoices, present participle undervoicing, simple past and past participle undervoiced)

undervoices (present singular third-person)
undervoicing (participle present)
undervoiced (participle past)
undervoiced (past)

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Undervoicing the flame, there was the popping of hollow weed stalks, the tinkle of woody stems crisping and falling in coals.

1902, Martha McCulloch-Williams, Next to the Ground: Chronicles of a Countryside, page 74:

(transitive) To make a quieter or background sound beneath.


leadless

a leadless glaze


overclose

overclose (third-person singular simple present overcloses, present participle overclosing, simple past and past participle overclosed)

overcloses (present singular third-person)
overclosing (participle present)
overclosed (participle past)
overclosed (past)

From Middle English overclosen, equivalent to over- + close (verb).

(physics) To form a closed universe before it has attained its present age.


mismove

mismove (third-person singular simple present mismoves, present participle mismoving, simple past and past participle mismoved)

mismoves (present singular third-person)
mismoving (participle present)
mismoved (participle past)
mismoved (past)
mismave (alternative dialectal)

(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To disturb; trouble; to disconcert; alarm; flurry.


mistouch

mistouch (third-person singular simple present mistouches, present participle mistouching, simple past and past participle mistouched)

mistouches (present singular third-person)
mistouching (participle present)
mistouched (participle past)
mistouched (past)

To touch inappropriately, wrongly or by mistake.


undie

undie (third-person singular simple present undies, present participle undying, simple past and past participle undied)

undies (present singular third-person)
undying (participle present)
undied (participle past)
undied (past)

(intransitive) To come back to life after having died.


sliving

en-adj

sliving (comparative more sliving, superlative most sliving)

more sliving (comparative)
most sliving (superlative)

Coined by celebrity Paris Hilton in 2019 as a blend of slaying (“amazing, stunning, excelling”) + living (“making the most of life”).

blend

That said, we're definitely going to keep our eyes peeled for some "sliving" merch very, very soon.

2019 December 17, Sandra Song, “Paris Hilton Invents 'Sliving' While Interviewing Kim Petras”, in Paper Mag, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

And soon cooking is about to get a lot more sliving, now that Cooking with Paris, a 6-part series, is coming to Netflix this August.

2021 July 27, Tammie Teclemariam, “What Does Paris Hilton Mean By Sliving?”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 2023-02-02:

Take her famous "sliving lasagna," for example. It's a family recipe, passed down from her grandmother Kathleen, "an amazing cook."

2021 August 6, Alex Zaragoza, “Paris Hilton's 'Cooking With Paris' Is Both Charming and Relatable”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2022-12-15:

She's almost always wearing "sliving gloves" — lacy or bejeweled fingerless numbers she's named after a catchphrase that seems to combine "slaying" with "living your best life" — that constantly get smeared with whatever she's making.

2021 August 10, Emily Heil, “Paris Hilton's new cooking show gets everything wrong about cooking”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2022-03-12:

Paris Hilton's bodyguard isn't "sliving" even if his client is.

2022 April 25, Nardine Saad, “Paris Hilton's bodyguard goes viral after Coachella moment”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2022-07-15:

Congratulatory messages flowed in from fans, many of whom deemed Nicky to be "beautiful" as one wrote: "Picture perfect." Another said: "Most sliving aunt out there," with a third adding: "So awesome congratulations!!! That's Hott," and one commenting: "Wonderful photos, you're all so graceful."

2022 May 28, Hannah Hargrave, “Paris Hilton models monochrome beachwear in stunning vacation photo”, in Hello Magazine, archived from the original on 2022-10-17:


zambuk

zambuks (plural)
zambuck (alternative)
Zambuk (alternative)

From Zam-Buk, a type of healing ointment originally manufactured in England, United Kingdom; further origin uncertain.

“C’mon ‘Zambuk,’ what’s keeping yer!” the old-time football crowds would yell when one over-eager barracker k.o.’d an opposition supporter. Spencer Middlemiss sat back in a chair at his Mascot home last week, and, surrounded by a pile of certificates, photographs and cuttings, proudly confessed that he was one of the original “Zambuks.”

1957 April 14, David Burke, “He slept in a police cell: Oldest ambulance man looks back”, in The Sun-Herald, 2nd edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Fairfax and Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, columns 1–2:

The Hospitaller's Clubs, who work for the Hospital of St. John, an op[h]thalmic hospital in Jerusalem, and the St. John Ambulance Brigade, they're the voluntary uniform body, the Zambuks on the football field and the women in white who look after fainting people in big crowds …

1966 March 17, Marjorie Higgins, quotee, “And how is your first aid? Do you know what to do until the doctor comes?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, late edition, number 40,013, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Fairfax and Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, Women’s Section, page 8:

When I came past the accident scene I couldn't believe it—the driver was walking around, though he was breathing a little huskily. As the ambulance by that time had arrived I told one of the zambucks.

2005, Trevor L. White, chapter 6, in Death at the Post, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, published 2012, →ISBN, page 67:

‘You’re still bleeding from that wound on the head. Tiger’ll put a dressing on it.’ / ‘Aw, call the Zambuck,’ he protested. / […] / ‘Zambuck’s the first aid man at the footy—you know, St John’s Ambulance. They’re called that ’cause of the ointment they carry.’

2007, Michael O’Sullivan, “Another Sunday Morning”, in Easter at Tobruk, [Sydney, N.S.W.]: ReadHowYouWant, published 2008, →ISBN, part 2, page 59:

All Black lock Tiny White (born 1925) being taken from the field by zambuks in the fourth New Zealand–South Africa rugby test, Eden Park, Auckland, 1 September 1956.

2009, Graeme Hunt, “Post-war Challenges”, in First to Care: 125 Years of the Order of St John in New Zealand 1885–2010, Auckland: Libro International; Wellington: Waddington Press for the Priory in New Zealand of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, →ISBN, image caption, page 182:

We better tell them the shooting is over, otherwise the cops won't let the zambucks come up to get Cathy.

2010, Alix Bosco [pseudonym; Greg McGee], chapter 47, in Slaughter Falls, [Sydney, N.S.W.]: ReadHowYouWant, →ISBN, pages 414–415:

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A first-aider, especially one from St. John Ambulance attending at a sports event.


cought

The third day he cought up bloud, and some little issued from his Wound that day and the next.

1676, Richard Wiseman, Several chirurgical treatises, page 369:


Theron

Borrowed from Latin Thērōn, in turn from Ancient Greek Θήρων (Thḗrōn).

Theron of Akragas (died 473 BC), a tyrant of Akragas in Sicily.


mistaste

en-verb

mistaste (third-person singular simple present mistastes, present participle mistasting, simple past and past participle mistasted)

mistastes (present singular third-person)
mistasting (participle present)
mistasted (participle past)
mistasted (past)

From Middle English mistasten, equivalent to mis- + taste.

The support provided by custom or by the oenological guide serves only to make it understood that one has not tasted the wine or, having mistasted it, that one perceived nothing or almost nothing.

2009, Jean-Luc Marion, The Visible and the Revealed - Page 131:

(transitive, archaic) To taste wrongly or in error


overshift

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌʃɪft/

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈʃɪft/

... the area has neotectonic characteristics : stiff carbonatic rocks are thrusted and folded each over the other originating inverse faults and overshifts.

1989, Charles Alan Kircher, Anil K. Chopra, Seismic engineering, research and practice:

(geology) An overhang caused by seismic shift.


undershift

The forming of shifts and undershifts is activated by frequent quakes.

1964, Bhabesh Chandra Roy, Report of the twenty-second session, India, 1964:

(geology) An underhang caused by seismic shift.


retyre

retyre (third-person singular simple present retyres, present participle retyring, simple past and past participle retyred)

retyres (present singular third-person)
retyring (participle present)
retyred (participle past)
retyred (past)

/ɹɪˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

Obsolete form of retire (“to withdraw”).


redout

en-noun

redout (countable and uncountable, plural redouts)

From red + out, because it may cause a red appearance in the visual field; compare blackout.

The heart is unable to sufficiently regulate blood flow to prevent excess blood from flooding the brain's blood vessels and causing redout.

1994, Geza Szurovy, Basic Aerobatics, page 34:

The situation where the body experiences a negative g-force sufficient to cause a blood flow from the lower parts of the body to the head.


wadder

wadder (countable and uncountable, plural wadders)

Represents dialects with t- and d-flapping, where the phonemes /t/ and /d/ merge into [ɾ] in some positions.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


wadder

en-verb

wadder (third-person singular simple present wadders, present participle waddering, simple past and past participle waddered)

wadders (present singular third-person)
waddering (participle present)
waddered (participle past)
waddered (past)


windsome

en-adj

windsome (comparative more windsome, superlative most windsome)

more windsome (comparative)
most windsome (superlative)

As I chase the tiny children with my windsome eyes abounding And I lead the fragrant flowers in their tiny gameplay fancy I lead them through the only time when I alone cannot remember Where I touch the nearby nearaway with the glossy touch forever

1973, Allan Graham, Island Prose and Poetry:

They and I stumbled around with staccato gaits, first windsome, then fierce, getting faster and faster until the whole thing resembled some sort of spastic frenzy.


wind off

en-verb

wind off (third-person singular simple present winds off, present participle winding off, simple past and past participle winded off)

winds off (present singular third-person)
winding off (participle present)
winded off (participle past)
winded off (past)

Our crane operations have been winded off for two weeks!

(idiomatic, transitive) To cancel (an event) due to high wind speeds.


misfuck

misfuck (third-person singular simple present misfucks, present participle misfucking, simple past and past participle misfucked)

misfucks (present singular third-person)
misfucking (participle present)
misfucked (participle past)
misfucked (past)

And sometimes we should do a little transhygienic history before we misfuck life forms.

2007, Gary Kirby, Bridge Out: Full Speed Ahead:

(transitive, vulgar) To fuck or fuck up wrongly or amiss; ruin


misfuck

I could hope all I want, that some cosmic eclipse would erase every mishap, every misword, every misfuck, but I just don't think it matters anymore.

(transitive, vulgar) A bad, wrong, or regrettable fuck


misfuck

Perhaps from Etymology_1 above, or a blend of mistake + fuck; or from both.

"You fucking idiot, I should have dropped you when I had the chance," he yelled. "Ask your players. They'd love to drop you too, you misfuck."

(vulgar, derogatory) A term of abuse: a fuck-up, who is also a mistake


misaccount

misaccount (third-person singular simple present misaccounts, present participle misaccounting, simple past and past participle misaccounted)

misaccounts (present singular third-person)
misaccounting (participle present)
misaccounted (participle past)
misaccounted (past)

From Middle English misaccounten, equivalent to mis- + account.

[…] having transpired in the village previous to the still more remarkable event which had struck dismay into the hearts of young and old, the journey was instantly attributed by those idle talkers who love nothing better than to misaccount for the movements and motives of their neighbours, […]

1846, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Men of Capital - Volume 3:

(transitive) to account badly, wrongfully, or in error


Chehalis

From Lower Chehalis C̓x̣íl̕əš (“Westport, Washington”).

bor

A city, the county seat of Lewis County, Washington, United States.

A river in Washington, United States, flowing into the Pacific Ocean.


Chehalis

From Halkomelem Stsʼaʼí:les (the name of a village, literally “beating heart”). Doublet of Sts'Ailes.

A Native American people of the Lower Mainland, British Columbia.


Chehalis

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A small community in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.


Dali

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大理 (Dàlǐ).


misdispense

As for machine-made mistakes — the "misdispense rate" — it is lower with Citibank's system than "any automated dispensing device that we know of," Judd said.

1979 October 15, Marguerite Zientara, “Citibank Starts 273-Branch 'Universal Teller'”, in Computerworld, volume 13, number 42, page 11:

If a loss occurs as a result of a problem or "misdispense" at an ATM, adjustment policies and procedures are in place which provide for a return of funds, if appropriate.

1996, United States, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Electronic Benefit Transfer Systems and Regulation E, page 158:

Up to $1,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be transferred to the general fund state purposes account of the office of temporary and disability assistance for costs of implementing an electronic benefit transfer system, including, but not limited to, an EBT misdispense claims unit.

2000, Laws of the State of New York - Volume 1, Parts 1-53, page 890:


Mosso

From Catalan mosso (“police officer”), ellipsis of mosso d'esquadra, from Old Spanish mozo (“boy, lad”). Doublet of mozo.

Even if he draws back from a declaration, many Catalans – including Mossos and civil servants – may decide to not to obey orders from Madrid, and tens of thousands of people could take to the streets to protect key regional government institutions.

2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in the Guardian:


inshell

Live inshell scallops are preferable to frozen scallop meats.

The insects that attack inshell peanuts consist of several species of beetles and of moths.

1966, Calvin Golumbic, Hamilton Laudani, “Storage and Warehousing”, in Protecting our Food, United States: Department of Agriculture, page 141:

The stain […] contains iodine, which is also a permitted disinfectant for inshell eggs.

1985 January, David Pyrah, “Staining Machine Improves Detection of Cracked Eggs”, in Agricultural Research, page 15:

Recent research shows that people snacking on inshell pistachios ate 41 percent fewer calories than those who consumed shelled nuts.

(agriculture, fishery) (of nuts, eggs, shellfish) Not removed from the shell.


ooch

A Grecian bandeau of white satin riband, tied round the head, with two long ends fluttering in the air—a profusion of false curls—a prodigality of glitter in the shape of tinsel, false diamonds, fingers full of rings, with “brooches, pearls, and ooches” innumerable—and the general befitting appurtenance of the geese wings—characterized the appearance of these ladies of the corps de ballet.

1839 March, William E[vans] Burton, “Leaves from a Life in London. No. VI. Coralie, the Coryphee.”, in William E. Burton, editor, Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and American Monthly Review, volume IV, number III, Philadelphia, Pa.: William E. Burton, […], →OCLC, pages 158–159:

(obsolete except historical or poetic) Alternative spelling of ouche (“a brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when set with jewels or valuable”).


misstamp

Aren't there cases where there might be a technical violation, where on explanation of the manufacturer involved, there could be found a reasonable explanation, that by some misstamp or carelessness or failing to carry out orders, the thing occurred, and yet if your plan were to be put into effect, immediately there was any sort of action taken, there would be publicity given to that fact.

1934, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, “In the Matter of The Application of Richard G. Strauss”, in Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics, page 87:

According to plaintiff, the misstamp "could have been a factory error."

1997, New Jersey. Superior Court, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court, Appellate Division, Chancery Division, Law Division, and in the County Courts of the State of New Jersey, page 610:

Positioning of the stamp needs to be carried out up to now in specially designed high precission machines, since a single misstamp leads to activation of the touched area.

2012, Hans-Peter Saluz, M. Köhler, T. Mejevaia, Microsystem Technology: A Powerful Tool for Biomolecular Studies, page 263:


misdrop

Much conjecture has arisen about the reasons for the misdrop. The pilots had been given plenty of flying time to become familiar with the C-46, but the opportunities to fly in tight formation were somewhat lacking. This may well have been one of the reasons for the milling about as the aircraft approached the Rhine.

2008, Stephen E. Wright, The Last Drop: Operation Varsity, March 24-25, 1945, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 225:

An incorrect or misplaced drop (especially an airdrop of bombs, supplies, or paratroopers).


mispress

A vinyl record with incorrect content pressed, due to a manufacturing mistake.


misreform

... whether the party's determination to say that it is going to " abolish the eleven-plus " examination is merely to be a slogan about gradual changes in selection methods, or whether it will herald a serious attempt at educational misreform.

1958, The Economist - Volume 187, page 583:

I give you this hint that you may work up the concluding scene of her life as seraphicly as you can cast over it that sunshine that may be able to dispell all the misreforms that the foregoing had made upon minds really & not pretendly tender for as these last only pride themselves in what they have not they will never be brought to own that an author's address can ravish from them what they think it an honour to pretend to.

1992, William Warburton, John Knapton, Donald W. Nichol, Pope's literary legacy:

The authors had little to say about the complete absence of institutional transformations in the economy and emphasise sabotage on the part of the nomenklatura as the principal cause for the "misreform".

1997, Nikolai Biryukov, Victor Sergeyev, Russian Politics in Transition, →ISBN:

A reform that ends up making things worse.


misdisplay

en-noun

misdisplay (countable and uncountable, plural misdisplays)


misblow

Also we changed our method of blowing to eliminate misblows.

1958, Pulp and Paper Manual of Canada, page 33:

Soon it was discovered that one of the governing factors was the temperature of the pin prior to blowing. Above 220°F, the thermoplastic stuc to the pin and resulted in a misblow.

1966, Technical Papers - Society of Plastics Engineers - Volume 12, page 3:

Misblows, caused by clogged vents or by improper closure of pattern halves due to sand grains on the pattern parting lines, result in a high percentage of scrapped molds.

1989, ASM Handbook Committee, Metals handbook - Volume 5, page 189:


Wangan

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 望安 (Wàng'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Wang⁴-an¹.

Wang-an (alternative)
Wang'an (alternative)

Small airports have also jbeen^([sic – meaning been]) built on Chimei and Wangan islands to handle services by light aircraft.

1982 May 9, “Penghu: Old and new in charming blend”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 18, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

He distinguishes three main domains in the Penghu archipelago(Fig. 2): (1) in the main northern islands and in central Wangan (Pachao) island, alkali basalts and tholeiites alternate, (2) to the northeast, within a NW-SE trending zone, the alkali basalts contain numerous ultramafic nodules and (3) to the south, on Chimei and the surrounding islands, alkali basalts clearly dominate.
. . .
Four ages may be related to the major alkali-tholeiite basalt flows of the northern group of islands and Wangan (Pachao) island, 12.7, 13.3, 13.5 and 16.2 Ma.

1990, Jacques Angelier, Françoise Bergerat, Hao Tsu Chu, Wen Shing Juang, Chia Yu Lu, “Paleostress analysis as a key to margin extension: The Penghu Islands, South China Sea”, in Tectonophysics, volume 183, →DOI, pages 163, 164:

To the south, Wangan Islet has a population of about 4,000, making it the most populated of the outlying islands.

2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 196:

In addition, the biggest of the South Sea Islands - Wangan and Cimei - both have airports that host frequent flights from mainland Taiwanese cities.

2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), →ISBN, page 446:

Among the archipelago's ecological attractions are turtles and avians. The green turtles (Chelonia mydas japonica) that lay their eggs on Wangan Island between May and October are an endangered species protected by ROC law.

2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Travel Guides) (Travel), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 310:

This study investigated the potential of achieving energy autonomy in Wangan Island, based on the use of renewable energy....Renewables could replace costly diesel for electricity generation on Wangan, and become a successful condition example of sustainable development. Roadmaps are needed for Wangan to scale up its applications of renewables, whether in the power or transportation sectors.

2018, Jian Hua, Hong-Gwo Shiu, “Sustainable development of renewable energy on Wangan Island, Taiwan”, in Utilities Policy, volume 55:

The majority of tourists, particularly those who visit during the peak summer months of July and August, reach Qimei by boat. Typically they arrive on pleasure craft that sail from Magong around 9 o’clock in the morning, stopping first at Wangan Island.
These ferry excursions are such a finely developed tourist institution that it is usually possible to buy tickets that include the use of a Vespa-type scooter on both Wangan and Qimei, or if you would rather not trouble yourself with matters of parking and navigation, you can purchase tickets that include bus tours around both islands. Those weighing the former option should know there is hardly any traffic on Qimei, the roads are well maintained, and getting lost is pretty difficult.
The tours allow visitors around two hours to explore Wangan and a similar amount of time on Qimei, and are back in Magong for dinner.

2018 July 3, “Sailing to Taiwan’s Island of Seven Beauties”, in American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, archived from the original on 2020-10-01:

On May 28, there will be a show on Cimei Island; on June 11, there will be a show on Wangan Island, and on June 25, there will be one on Jibei Island.

2022 April 26, Natalie Tso, “Penghu kicks off 20th International Fireworks Festival”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 2022-04-26:

Penghu never industrialized, and as a result the unspoiled environment is enjoyed by creatures such as turtles and birds. The green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas japonica) that lay their eggs on Wangan Island between May and October are an endangered species protected by Taiwan law.

2023 April 14, Taiwan Tourism Bureau, “A Thousand Points of Light: Penghu International Fireworks Festival”, in Taiwan Business TOPICS, archived from the original on 2023-04-14:

An island of Wangan, Penghu County, Taiwan.


counterpublic

In other words, with this book they form a “counterpublic” to what they saw as a dominant, adult-controlled public sphere.

2008, Patrick James Noonan, Creating a Counterpublic, page 5:

It is incorrect to conceive of the black counterpublic as historically static or as ideologically cohesive at any given historical moment.

2010, Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, page 6:

A group that stands in opposion to the dominant public.


misspot

en-verb

misspot (third-person singular simple present misspots, present participle misspotting, simple past and past participle misspotted)

misspots (present singular third-person)
misspotting (participle present)
misspotted (participle past)
misspotted (past)

(transitive) To mark (dice) with the wrong number of spots, generally in order to cheat.


misspot

Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 283:

(gambling) A die marked with the wrong number of spots.


misbreed

misbreed (third-person singular simple present misbreeds, present participle misbreeding, simple past and past participle misbred)

misbreeds (present singular third-person)
misbreeding (participle present)
misbred (participle past)
misbred (past)

Discord will occur even in Socrates ' city because the rulers, no matter how wise, will misbreed the guardians, producing inferior guardians, who bring discord with them.

1994, Brian G. Domino, Social and Political Philosophy, page 29:

Humans breed in ways quite similar to those of animals; and if humans misbreed, the results are misbreeds.

2005, Mark Bennett Feldman, Narrating, Displaying and Spectating the Animal, page 287:

So what keeps wolves and coyotes from interbreeding in nature? Obviously, those who don't misbreed will leave more viable offspring.

2014, David V. McCorkle, Why the Universe Bothers to Exist, page 21:

To breed with the wrong mate, resulting in inferior offspring.


misblend

Refinery blending schedules are seldom followed exactly because of unexpected developments including early or late barge arrivals, misblends, etc.

1968, 1968 IFAC Symposium, Optimal Systems Planning, page 227:

The witness Gorman however seemed to attach blame to Arrowood for repeatedly reporting misblends during these weeks, when actually no wrong weights could be determined.

1970, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board:

The viscosity is obviously a very important property, but it must be remembered that for multigrade oils, a low or high viscosity can be due to either a misblend of the base oils or an incorrect amount of viscosity improver.

2018, R. David Whitby, Lubricant Blending and Quality Assurance:


misbox

Since the guide program was placed in operation on operation 3, 4, and 6, beginning Monday, January 18, and Monday , January 25, 1960 , 'misboxes' have increased considerably and yet this condition is not reflected in your verification reports.

1963, Work Measurement System of the Postal Service:

An instance of missorting a piece of mail.


miscatch

Forty-five vessels had, during the whole fishing time, fished 3266 times and caught 21,623 barrels of herrings, consequently on an average 6.66 barrels every time the nets were laid; however, there having been 882 times a miscatch, the above-named number really has been caught in 3266-882=2,384 times fishing. Hence the catch of every time of fishing amounts to 9.1 barrels.

1858, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal:

At temperatures below fifty, the proportion of catch to miscatch is almost equal ; between fifty and sixty degrees the proportion is about four catches to one miscatch.

1859, Walter White, Northumberland, and the Border, page 242:

Investigating types and number of fishing gears; catch per unit of effort by different fishing gears; miscatch amount and bycatch ratio of fish banned.

2017, Zhenli Huang, Bingfang Wu, Three Gorges Dam: Environmental Monitoring Network and Practice, page 133:

(fishing) A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.

Thus, miscatches on indices may well to detected after only two groups of tests, one group on a prediction index and the other on the corresponding syntactic word class index, instead of after a minimum of six as in the former version of the program (five groups of tests on the prediction indices and one group on the syntactic word class indices).

1964, Harvard University. Computation Laboratory, Mathematical Linguistics and Automatic Translation, page 14:

A miscatch of sound, slip of hand, waver in decision and $100,000 is dropped into a mile-deep hole never again to be fished up.

1989, John Schmidt, Growing Up in the Oil Patch, page 42:


miscatch

miscatch (third-person singular simple present miscatches, present participle miscatching, simple past and past participle miscaught)

miscatches (present singular third-person)
miscatching (participle present)
miscaught (participle past)
miscaught (past)

How great a stumbling block to a good dictator would be the amanuensis who lacks concentration of mind, or through carelessness miscatches a word, and calls out to him in the midst of a brilliant flow of ideas, “wait please, I have not caught the word." or, "excuse me, did you say so and so?"

1890 February, Mrs. M. A. O'Neil, “Amanuenses Work From a Woman's Stand-Point”, in The Journal of Commercial Education, volume 5, page 166:

After a pause she added these words, memorable forever; words whose meaning she may have miscaught, misunderstood; as to that we can never know; words which she may have rightly understood; as to that, also, we can never know; but words whose mystery fell away from them many a year ago and revealed their real meaning to all the world:

1899, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, The Writings of Mark Twain, page 191:

Auto detection can be interrupted any time by the user if the program miscatches the markers.

1995, Ung Kim, Joon-Sung Chang, Seung-Han Park, 21st International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics:

Marty miscaught his coin and sent it spinning across the room, where it disappeared under the sofa.

2002, James Flint, 52 Ways to Magic America, page 70:

Boutonniere injuries occur at the PIP finger joint with a disruption of the central slip of the extensor tendon mechanism as a result of longitudinal force to the finger such as that from a basketball that is miscaught.

2004, William O. Roberts, Bull's Handbook of Sports Injuries, page 256:


mischeck

Audio (US)

Checking when done had been so badly done that more time of clerks was wasted erasing mischecks than would have been required to do the whole correctly in the beginning.

1894, Cynthia E. Cleveland, Democratic Campaign Book, page 201:

Carelessness may be manifested in unduly brief replies to open questions or projective stimuli, and in hasty reading of closed questions, resulting in mischecks or random responses or position habits. It is likely that carelessness is substantially attributable to the particular conditions of rapport which surround the test taking.

1968, Gardner Lindzey, Elliot Aronson, The Handbook of Social Psychology: Research methods, page 237:

On redirect Officer Williams indicated it was a mischeck.

1980, California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs, page 8:

A check mark that was made inaccurately.


misclean

misclean (third-person singular simple present miscleans, present participle miscleaning, simple past and past participle miscleaned)

miscleans (present singular third-person)
miscleaning (participle present)
miscleaned (participle past)
miscleaned (past)

No amount of pre-evaluation that we can carry out will completely avoid or prevent customer complaints because for every kind of consumer use we can forecase the actual consumer can find many more ways of straining, misusing, miscleaning, and otherwise mistreating merchandise.

1953, American Society for Quality Control, Annual Technical Conference Transactions:

In an indoor environment, areas that are more out of site, such as those below or above certain home furniture, are often miscleaned for a long period.

2013 November, Youcef Shahali, Andrea Brazdova, Michel Calleja, Denis Charpin, Hélène Sénéchal, Pascal Poncet, “Indoor, long-term persistence of cypress pollen allergenic potency: a 10-month study”, in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, volume 111, number 5:

Was it the sealant supplier who sold a product that hardened too much with age, or was it the applicator who miscleaned or poorly primed the joint that led to the adhesive failure?

2017, Jerome Klosowski, Sealants in Construction, page 1-52:


misclean

Defects are commonly of great variety and are described as holes, missing color, oil, white scrimp, misclean, out of fit (where the pattern is out of line), grey black scrimp, snap, stick in, hair line, color streak, color spot, roller scratches, torn selvage, and chatter (where thelines come horizontal in the printing).

1948, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of South Carolina, page 498:

On the next day, another misclean of approximately 750 yards was discovered on Gregory's machine while no one was in attendance at his post.

1955, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 278:

A defect in printing fabric that arises from improperly cleaning the rollers that apply the ink, leaving unintended marks on the fabric.


misclock

misclock (third-person singular simple present misclocks, present participle misclocking, simple past and past participle misclocked)

misclocks (present singular third-person)
misclocking (participle present)
misclocked (participle past)
misclocked (past)

This glitch can misclock the DMA state controller and indirectly mess up the memory unit in use.

1977, Conference Proceedings: Computer Faire, page 288:

We didn't get past the start. It was misclocked opened and we got too much lox flow in the main chamber early.

1995, SSME Post Test Diagnostic System: Systems Section, page 57:

This occurred despite an alignment pin design feature to prevent misclocking. It occurred despite a sensitivity test of the system a few days before liftoff to confirm live activity and correct polarity of all of the rate gyros.

2001, Walter Edward Hammond, Design Methodologies for Space Transportation Systems, page 696:

(electronics) To cause or produce a misclock.


misclose

Of these papers it is interesting to note that the shape profile analysed according to the Anwar and Binnie methods contained minor miscloses under static conditions, whereas the Harrison computer-orientated method appears to be satisfactory.

1974, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), Proceedings - Volume 56, Part 1, page 191:

Having computed three miscloses from three initial guesses, Newtonian iteration is used to improve the guessed values in a semi-automatic manner.

1983, L. J. Morris, Instability and plastic collapse of steel structures, page 57:

This process was repeated for all nodes along the column and the resulting deflection (misclose) at the top of the column of -0.298 mm indicated that the chosen trial value of N was incorrect.

1997, A. E. Kilpatrick, Balamuthu Vijaya Rangan, Curtin University of Technology. School of Civil Engineering, Deformation-control analysis of composite concrete columns, page 39:

(civil engineering, by extension) The degree to which the model of the forces acting on a structure fail to account for the observed shape of that structure.


miscommand

miscommand (third-person singular simple present miscommands, present participle miscommanding, simple past and past participle miscommanded)

miscommands (present singular third-person)
miscommanding (participle present)
miscommanded (participle past)
miscommanded (past)

If a Governour make a new Sacrament, I will not obey, because: his command is null, and the thing simply evil. If he miscommand a Circumstance of Time, or Place, or Gesture, I will consider the consequents.

1659, Richard Baxter, Five Disputations of Church-government and Worship, page 423:

If either the superiors miscommand, or the inferiors disobey, it is an affront to peace.

The truant skipped his drill, but had an eye no man could turn aside or miscommand for where the quarry of his spirit lay.

1904, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 609:

Also at this time we would question the engineers about the failsafe mode that the satellite must go into in case an operator miscommands, or a failure of a redundant system in an attitude control system

1980, Executive Summary of the Working Conference on Advanced Electrotechnology Applications to Nuclear Power Plants, page 32:


heterograph

/ˈhɛtəɹəʊɡɹæf/

A word whose sound is the same, but spelling and meaning differ from another’s.


downtune

downtune (third-person singular simple present downtunes, present participle downtuning, simple past and past participle downtuned)

downtunes (present singular third-person)
downtuning (participle present)
downtuned (participle past)
downtuned (past)

We all downtune for this song so it's easier on the singer.

He downtuned his guitar to play along with the recording.

(music) To tune (a musical instrument) to a lower pitch.


misdraft

In weaving, the defects which cling to the goods to the very end are temple-marks, which show up on light shade satines, on linings and beetled work; misdrafts, on twills, welts, etc.; reed-marks, which ruin the finish of the finest satines; and the mixing of mule and ring filling, of American and Egyptian cotton, and of different numbers of filling yarns, which, together with oil stains, are harmful to all grades.

1899, Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers:

Any hon. member who has given any serious attention or thought or any study to the Bill would realise, however, that even in what I may with repect term the silly misdraft of Clause l as it at present stands, this Bill does nothing in the way of dividing the Crown.

1937, South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly, Debates of the ... Session of the ... Parliament of the House of Assembly, volume 28:

Clause 4 deals with the form, validity and replacement of a lost licence. But there is, I see, a misprint, or misdraft, I do not know.

1970, Isle of Man. Tynwald. Legislative Council, The Times Reports of Debates in the Manx Legislature, page C-103:

Another reason was the susceptibility of the machine to misdraft.

1983, Brian Toyne, The U.S. Textile Mill Products Industry, page 10:

the start of Clause 12(1) takes the opportunity to correct what is referred to as a minor misdraft in the Justices of the Peace Act 1979.

1985, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Official Report, page 1112:

If there are large numbers to be drafted off they should be first drafted into a small pen and then released to a larger holding area. This practice saves time if misdrafts occur.

1991, Australian Agricultural Council. Standing Committee on Agriculture, CSIRO, Farm Cattle Handling, page 31:

Feeding the sliver in via precondenser and condenser to the feed tray has technological implications, since depending on the sliver weight and volume along with fiber/fiber and fiber/surface friction, a positive sliver tension can be achieved or, in a negative case, an undesirable misdraft.

2004, Melliand International - Volumes 10-11, page 107:

An error in the process of drafting (any sense).


cobless

cobless (third-person singular simple present coblesses, present participle coblessing, simple past and past participle coblessed)

coblesses (present singular third-person)
coblessing (participle present)
coblessed (participle past)
coblessed (past)


misdump

On September 3 the terminal manager spoke with the employer's president and told him that the last misdump was the driver's third mistake.

1973, Labor Relations Reference Manual: The Law of Labor Relations, page 1657:

He confronted Mulkey with it and Mulkey, after checking over his books, acknowledged that he had copied a number incorrectly from the dispatch sheet and had made the misdump.

1974, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 235:

In our opinion, he should not have done so because he thereby prevented the jury from awarding damages to the Hawkins family for the inconvenience, discomfort, and annoyance they suffered after Scituate Oil's tragic misdump left their home uninhabitable.

2005, M. Stuart Madden, Gerald W. Boston, Law of Environmental and Toxic Torts: Cases, Materials, and Problems, page 272:


misfactor

misfactor (third-person singular simple present misfactors, present participle misfactoring, simple past and past participle misfactored)

misfactors (present singular third-person)
misfactoring (participle present)
misfactored (participle past)
misfactored (past)

“The vengefulness it must take to call me with that hand!” says Coren Mitchell. “It’s only because of the cage. You would never call me with that if it wasn’t for the cage…. Oh, I misfactored the cage!”

2014 December 15, Robert Woolley, “How To Recognize (and Beat) the Unbluffable Player”, in Poker News:

To incorrectly analyze the role or importance of (something that influences or determines a result).


mistap

If the controls are crammed together, mistaps may happen.

Sorry for down voting, I'm on phone currently and it was a mistap

2015 November 18, “Can a 525w PSU run a gtx 750ti?”, in Tom's Hardware Forum:

A tap on a touch screen device that is misplaced or otherwise accidental.


mistap

mistap (third-person singular simple present mistaps, present participle mistapping, simple past and past participle mistapped)

mistaps (present singular third-person)
mistapping (participle present)
mistapped (participle past)
mistapped (past)

Some buttons are too close in this app, you will often mistap.

(intransitive) To make an accidental tap on a touch screen.

While the simplicity of the app's UI is great, it's just a nightmare to navigate. Tiny buttons to change cards, not intuitive at all. Oh!... and then, there is an ad stripe, perfectly placed at the bottom of the screen, so it's easily mistapped whenever you feel like closing the app. Great potential, abysmal execution.

(transitive) To tap (a control on a touch screen) by mistake.


misfetch

It also shows the conditional branch misprediction rate ( due to both misprediction and target address misfetch), the return misprediction rate, and the BTB miss rate .

1996, Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, page 63:

All branches and calls cause a misfetch when the branch is not present in the BTB.

1998, International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Conference Proceedings: June 27 - July 1, 1998, Barcelona, Spain, page 36:

Unfortunately, the typical optimizations for cachelike structures, such as larger capacity or associativity, will not help in decreasing misfetches.

2010, Jean-Loup Baer, Microprocessor Architecture, page 148:

(computing) An error that occurs when the wrong block of code is fetched in advance.


misfigure

misfigure (third-person singular simple present misfigures, present participle misfiguring, simple past and past participle misfigured)

misfigures (present singular third-person)
misfiguring (participle present)
misfigured (participle past)
misfigured (past)

/ˈmɪsˌfɪɡə(ɹ)/

/ˈmɪsˌfɪɡjʊə(ɹ)/

But you make another mistake — you misfigure dates again — and you've got something more to answer for.

1960, South of The Angles Jessamyn West, page 166:

You're a Gray-Area Misfigurer when you misfigure accidentally on purpose. Say your 100 shares of a $20 stock go up to $22, so you claim bragging rights to 10% profits. However, when you figure in commission, your shares really cost more like $2,050.

You might argue about letting borderline students squeak through some courses, but who wants a nurse who misfigures her meds?

2000, Donald J. Goodman, A Diamond in the Rough: Muskegon Community College, page 321:

To miscalculate; to make a computational error.

"Now, see here, mister, you get right back into that brush, a bargain's a bargain and you're not near the tree yet." “But I'se jest—” “Never mind now, you just misfigured a trifle, that's all, and I stay in the open till the tree is reached.”

And they did and the end began, and all Winkler 's words couldn't stop it: "Even prophets can misfigure, but the Vision's still true. Christ's still coming . Why leave; life's good here. "

1997, John Wood, The Gates of the Elect Kingdom: Poems, page 28:

Carter press secretary Jody Powell conceded that “we completely misfigured Ford's ability to pull off his 'Rose Garden campaign.' That was really a surprise to us. They've worked that to perfection.”

2005, Yanek Mieczkowski, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s:

If the flat rim of the center axicon is misfigured in such a way that its best fit plane is not perpendicular to the axis of symmetry of the center axicon ( defined in a least squares sense ) this deviation will […]

1980, Richard N. Shagam, William C. Sweatt, Optical Alignment: Proceedings : July 29-31, 1980, page 111:

Should the element be misfigured, then these aberrations would be combined with the actual misfigure.

1983 August 23, Gregory C . Dente, “Separating misalignment from misfigure in interferograms on off - axis aspheres”, in Precision Surface Metrology, page 188:

Both provide corrective optics which essentially cancel the wavefront error introduced by the misfigured primary mirror.

2012, Willem Wamsteker, Malcolm S. Longair, Y. Kondo, Frontiers Of Space And Ground-Based Astronomy, page 93:

(optics) To err in the manufacture of an optical surface so that it causes distortions.


misfigure

/ˈmɪsˌfɪɡə(ɹ)/

/ˈmɪsˌfɪɡjʊə(ɹ)/

All the uncertainties and misfigures of plans like this profit the agents and the companies, never the insured.

1889, Travelers' Record - Volumes 25-26:

There are misprints and misfigures and misnames in it.

1910, New York Supreme Court Appellate Division First Department, page 256:

The machine cannot reason; the machine cannot know emotion; it is a mere receptacle of facts and misfigures.

1959, American Journal of Correction, page 32:

1983 August 23, Gregory C. Dente, “Separating misalignment from misfigure in interferograms on off - axis aspheres”, in Precision Surface Metrology, page 188:

Compensation for optical surface misfigure was provided by a phase conjugating mirror to construct a phase conjugated transmitter subsystem.

1989, Bernard David Seery, Optomechanical Design of Laser Transmitters and Receivers, page 255:

In most systems, the optical misfigure can be at least partially corrected by focussing at one wavelength.

1990, Russell A. Chipman, Polarization Considerations for Optical Systems II, page 320:

For primitive it may seem, this test is exquisitely sensitive to surface misfigure, and will immediately reveal errors that may escape the most modern metrology.

2006, Renaud Foy, Françoise Claude Foy, Optics in Astrophysics, page 30:

(optics) The misfigured portion of an optical surface, or the presence of such a portion.


misfilm

Although rotary cameras are quicker than flat beds, microfilm bureaux often choose to use the latter. This is because preparation time is less; it is not necessary to mend all tears, nor to remove all staples, and there is less chance of misfilms.

1996, Business Archives - Issues 71-74, page 38:


misfill

misfill (third-person singular simple present misfills, present participle misfilling, simple past and past participle misfilled)

misfills (present singular third-person)
misfilling (participle present)
misfilled (participle past)
misfilled (past)

A chorus girl who dabbles in smuggling falls in with a pharmacist who is fleeing a charge of murder after he misfills a prescription.

1992, Gerald Martin Bordman, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, page 256256:

Mr. Miller, a man who once fixed dents in the fuselages of jets and felt pride in his craft whenever a plane soared overhead, darts between the counter and the food pickup shelf, back and forth, a hundred times a day, careful not to misfill an order.

1996, Kenneth J. Neubeck, Davita Silfen Glasberg, Sociology: a critical approach, page 28:

Neither the Plaintiff nor Margarita's mother was aware that the prescription had been misfilled or that the misfill was failing to inhibit the blockage of her airway.

1998, New Mexico. Supreme Court, Report of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico, page 265:

To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.

As indeed it was, since Newell herself corrected all of the envelopes which Rushford had misfilled.

1953, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1217:

Vaporizers not equipped with keyed fillers have been occasionally misfilled with the wrong anesthetic liquid.

2013, Paul Barash, Bruce F. Cullen, Robert K. Stoelting, Clinical Anesthesia:

It depletes or demoralizes so many prayer-meetings, chills or misfills so many pulpits, and makes so many unworshipping choirs.

2009, Milton Wright, edited by Timothy S. G. Binkley, A Higher Moral and Spiritual Stand: Selected Writings of Milton Wright, page 56:

To fill a receptacle incorrectly; to fill with the wrong contents, the wrong amount, or at the wrong time.


misfill

Do not pass the misfill off as some minor incident, but demonstrate to the customer that this does not frequently occur in your store and express your sincere apologies and try to make amends to the satisfaction of the customer.

1980, Helen Wetherbee, Bruce David White, Cases and Materials on Pharmacy Law, page 290:

The pharmacist is careful not to comment on the misfill.

2015, Ruth E. Nemire, Karen L. Kier, Michelle T. Assa-Eley, Pharmacy Student Survival Guide, page 110:

The act of misfilling a prescription, order, or requirement.

Misfills became more prevalent with lower casting temperatures , and this problem was not completely eliminated.

1964, NASA Contractor Report - Issues 48-59:

The machine will also remove valves with no damage to the can in case of error or misfill.

1973, Soap, Cosmetics, Chemical Specialties - Volume 49, page 86:

The test showed that an excessive number of underfills resulted in too few runs to assume misfills were random. The machine was apparently set too low and was adjusted.

1995, Allen Webster, Applied Statistics for Business and Economics, page 804:

The act or result of misfilling a receptacle.


misflip

The peninsula, unlike most of the Sounds country, had never been milled or burnt off or gone over by unwanted immigrants: aside from the legendary misflip in navigation, no errors had been made there.

1968, Arena (Wellington, N.Z.). - Issues 69-81, page 2:


misgloss

Recently, this misgloss has led to an impossible interpretation of the Beowulf poet's allusion to "beornas on blancum" [warriors on white horses] (856a) and their racing on "fealwe mearwas" [fallow horses] (865b) in the episode of the Danes and Geats coming back from the mere.

2003, Earl R. Anderson, Folk-taxonomies in Early English, page 152:

Starostin's sisi 'deer' is a misgloss, the word can refer to 'deer' as an 'animal for consumption' but does not necessary do so.

2005, Martine Irma Robbeets, Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?, page 100:

Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.

2006, Folia orientalia - Volumes 42-43, page 467:


misgrasp

/ˈmɪsɡɹɑːsp/

/mɪsˈɡɹɑːsp/

They all reflect to a greater or lesser degree, in the language and explanatory material employed, the same misgrasp of biological theory mentioned before.

1984, Ethel M. Wheeler, How "Montessorian" are the Montessori Schools?, page 87:

To compound that problem by disseminating misinformation based on a woeful misgrasp of the facts to concerned citizens without first "checking the facts” with a knowledgeable biologist (of which you employ many at the hands-on level) is simply irresponsibility defined.

1992, Mark Jerome Walters, A Shadow and a Song: The Struggle to Save an Endangered Species, page 154:

Middle-aged Louisiana State University librarian Myrtle Rusk is tasked with patrolling the stacks to tell lustful students to take their hormones elsewhere. But she bends the rules for Seti, an Egyptian student worker with an amusing misgrasp of English who has fallen for the wiles of Lili, the library director's sensuous daughter.

2010, George M. Eberhart, The Librarian's Book of Lists, page 42:

A failure to grasp or understand; misapprehension.


misgrind

misgrind (third-person singular simple present misgrinds, present participle misgrinding, simple past and past participle misground)

misgrinds (present singular third-person)
misgrinding (participle present)
misground (participle past)
misground (past)

In many shops, a floor grinder is provided so that the men are perfectly free to misgrind their tools.

1923, Frederic Burnham Jacobs, Abrasives: Grinding, Polishing, Buffing, Finishing - Volume 4, page 89:

Overheating of the enamel slip during grinding, or misgrinding from other causes, brings out difficulties with respect to set of the enamel, dipping, draining, and spraying, as well as surface texture.

1937, James Edward Hansen, Monroe J. Bahnsen, A Manual of Porcelain Enameling, page 294:

As a saw doctor, I have spent many frustrating hours trying to level saws that were misground (thick and thin spots) .

1988, Northern Logger and Timber Processer - Volume 37, Issues 1-6, page 9:

Suddenly, we hear the rasping sound of a lens being misground and a shot of the chart shows production declining once again.

2003, Peter B. High, The Imperial Screen, page 420:


misgrind

Misgrinds are costly. I admit I've popped beans into the grinder and activated it only to realize it was set on coarse when I needed a drip.

1997, Fresh Cup: The Voice of the Specialty Coffee Industry, page 52:

Margins should be left everywhere after rough grinding so as to the “misgrind” can be avoided; thereby the fine grinding is needed.

2021, A. Luximon, Handbook of Footwear Design and Manufacture, page 231:


misgrip

misgrip (third-person singular simple present misgrips, present participle misgripping, simple past and past participle misgripped)

misgrips (present singular third-person)
misgripping (participle present)
misgripped (participle past)
misgripped (past)

It was a revelation of sorts, those, of course, that could be read, for there were a few specimens of the hook-and-butt-joint variety which looked as though they'd been written with a spitsticker misgripped between two non-opposable toes.

1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 90:

Slides that did not fit the Robot's requirements were misgripped and dropped.

1991, Angela Milham, Viviana Bastone, Wilhelm T . Lawrence, Eduardo Zappi, “Two Years Esperience with an Automatic Coverslipper : Problems and Solutions”, in Journal of Histotechnology, volume 14, page 245:

This idea would have to wait, for in the process of turning, the staff fell from his grasp. He scrambled to grab the weapon but he ineptly misgripped and accidentally activated the trigger.

2003, Jarod Espy, Wonder Journeys Part I: Rise of a New Age, page 69:


misgrip

A very important factor in preventing slide misgrips and droppings was found to be steady cleaning the Robot's exposed parts from mountant or glass debris accumulated during the operation.

1991, Angela Milham, Viviana Bastone, Wilhelm T . Lawrence, Eduardo Zappi, “Two Years Esperience with an Automatic Coverslipper : Problems and Solutions”, in Journal of Histotechnology, volume 14, page 246:

A tool misgrip condition was intentionally created to verify sensor detection.

1998, Richard B. Correll, Autonomous Tool Monitoring System for a Horizontal Machining Center:


misharvest

en-noun

misharvest (countable and uncountable, plural misharvests)

The use of the profit criterion leads thus to the ridiculous conclusion that a misharvest is better than an abundant crop.

1983, Gerald M. Meier, Pricing Policy for Development Management, page 242:

In those farming systems the use of livestock is handy or even important as a security against misharvest or other misfortune, but is not a precondition for cultivation (Bosman and Moll, 1995).

1995, J. B. Schiere, Cattle, Straw and System Control, page 66:

Then there were misharvests. Potatoes rotted away and grains withered.

2005, Antonius Holtmann, A Lost American Dream, page 16:

Furthermore, the population in the Finnish countryside faced hardship in the aftermath of a serious misharvest and hunger catastrophe in the early 1860s.

2012, P. Glasbergen, Co-operative Environmental Governance, page 78:


misharvest

en-verb

misharvest (third-person singular simple present misharvests, present participle misharvesting, simple past and past participle misharvested)

misharvests (present singular third-person)
misharvesting (participle present)
misharvested (participle past)
misharvested (past)

Performance and accuracy covering harvesting width, adjustments for different crop heights and lodged plants, percentage of misharvesting, slippage and sinking of machine, header loss on field, quality of grain out put capacity of machine, clogging and case of its reduction, safety arrangements, power requirement, operating cost of machine and ease of operation.

1989, University of Peradeniya. Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture. Congress, Tropical Agricultural Research, page 137:

The Malian state offered the village a gift in July 1998 to try to reduce the effects of the famine caused by misharvesting at the beginning of that year.

2005 ·, Sahelian Pathways: Climate and Society in Central and South Mali:

The rate of misharvesting in which the robot harvested other fruits which did not adjoin the targeted fruit was 12% when there were no adjoining fruits, and 11% if adjoining fruits were in front of or beside the targeted fruit.

2007, S. Yamamoto, S. Hayashi, H. Yoshida, K. Kobayashi, K. Shigematsu, “Development of an end effector for a strawberry-harvesting robot”, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Technology for Greenhouse System Management: Greensys2007, page 567:

To harvest the wrong thing or at the wrong time.


mishire

mishires (plural)
mis-hire (alternative)

Merely by representing salary and/or job description in annual terms, you may be legally stuck with a mishire for that one-year period.

1996, Allan Krieff, Manager's Survival Guide, page 43:

If they are basically in business for themselves to do what they want to do rather than what you need done you have a mishire who you need to get out of the organiztion quickly.

2005, Andrew L. Ross, Gary L. Grenier, Frank J. Kros, Creating the Upside Down Organization, page 177:

The other three-fourths (the B- and C-Players) become mishires and mispromotions.

2009, Chris Lauer, The Management Gurus:

An unsuitable person who has been mishired.


misimplant

Using the procedure of inspection of one wafer from each cassette plus all wafers suspected by the operator of possible misimplant, an essentially total elimination of implant-related zero-yield wafers was achieved on a CMOS fab line providing high-performance VLSI devices

1987, WL Smith, A Rosencwaig, DL Willenborg, J Opsal, MW Taylor, “Ion implant monitoring with thermal wave technology”, in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics; Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, volume 21:

This group had 3 of the 42 wafers excluded from the data base due to misimplants and/or difficulties in probing the resulting layers.

1988, LA Larson, “An Industry‐Wide Evaluation of Ion Implant Dosing Accuracy”, in Journal of the Electrochemical Society, volume 135, number 7:

An instance of misimplanting; misimplantation.


underbrow

Black eyebrows and eyes so dark and scrutinizing (but he was being scrutinized too) as to give the face a sinister expression, especially through a sly underbrow manner of switching the eyes from one object to another.

1976, Alfred Leslie Rowse, A Cornishman Abroad, page 93:

'Snitch,' he muttered as he gave his daughter a comical underbrow glance.

1995, Emma Richmond, A Family Closeness, page 58:

Ben had shot her the underbrow look that told her she was in for a lecture.

2014, Diana Hamilton, A Spanish Vengeance:

They all looked dirty and unkempt, the girls with long greasy hair, theboys ditto, two with sideburns. The sloppy, dirty clothes, the bare feet, the sullen underbrow stares.

(of the act of looking) With the brow lowered.


dogess

From doge + -ess. Doublet of dogaressa and duchess.

The Reflecter, without citing his Author for it, pretends, that no Dogeſs can be Crowned, and that the Inquiſitors made a Decree againſt it.

1688, Animadversions on the Reflections upon Dr. B’s Travels, page 41:

The Dogeſſes are excluded from having any ſhare in thoſe ſhadows of Honour which are paid to their Husbands, which is an Effect of the Frugality of the Government; and indeed, the Republick has no need of two Mock-Soveraigns.

1695, “Letter XXIII.”, in A New Voyage to Italy, with a Description of the Chief Towns, Churches, Tombs, Libraries, Palaces, Statues, and Antiquities of that Country. […], volume II, London: […] R. Bentley, […], translation of [Nouveau voyage d’Italie: avec un mémoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage] by Maximilian Misson, page 5:

The Palace of the Republick, or the Publick Palace, call’d Palazzo Reale, is extreamly large. Here the Doge and Dogeſs lodge, and two or three Senators, with their Families, beſides ſome inferior Officers of the State.

1714, “Letter XXXV.”, in A New Voyage to Italy. With Curious Observations on several Other Countries; […], the fourth edition, volume II, London: […] R[ebecca] Bonwicke, […], translation of [Nouveau voyage d’Italie: avec un mémoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage] by [Maximilien Misson], page 374:

In the Churches of St. Paul and St. John are Pictures very much eſteem’d by the Connoiſſeurs; and there’s the ſumptuous Tomb of the Valerios, where the Father, the Mother, with the Son, are carv’d in their natural Proportion in Marble, apparell’d in the Habit of the Doge and Dogeſs.

1737, “Letter XXV.”, in The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Being the Observations He made in his late Travels from Prussia thro’ […], volume I, London: […] Daniel Browne, […], translation of [Memoires du Baron de Pollnitz, contenant les Observations qu’il a faites dans ses Voyages] by Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz [i.e., Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz], page 405:

Doge, the revenues of his office rarely anſwer the expences of it, ib. / the ancient families not fond of accepting it, ib. / the concern of a dogeſs upon her huſband’s election, 95

1764, Edward Wright, “A General Alphabetical Index to Both Volumes”, in Some Observations Made in Travelling through France, Italy, &c. in the Years mdccxx, mdccxxi, and mdccxxii, the second edition, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], column 2:

Procession of a Dogess of Venice, P[aolo]. Veronese;

1809, David Hughson, “Circuit of London”, in London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood, to Thirty Miles Extent, from an actual Perambulation, volume VI, London: […] W. Stratford, […], for J. Stratford, […], section “East Saloon, next the Dome”, page 531:

Of the most active and efficient of these in our city, none can exceed my own especial and dear friend Mrs. Trippe, whose sagacity and satire can never be over-tasked in this labor of love, and whose zeal sometimes, finding itself unsupplied with the necessary victims to be broken on the wheel of the Virtuous Indignation Society, has often, with unsurpassed skill, managed to use up the several members constituting the venerable Council of Ten themselves, of whom Mrs. Van Dam has assumed the Dogess-ship;

1846 June, Peter Schemil [pseudonym], “Lights and Shadows of Fashionable Life”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XXVII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: […] John Allen, […], page 487:

A dreadful country, full of stagnant lakes , and marshes steaming with miasmatic exhalations. No houses there; only hospitals. The government a medical oligarchy: Sangrado doge, a sage femme dogess, Thomas Diagoirus prime minister, Mrs. Gamp (pp. Lucina) mistress of the robes.

1871 October, George Augustus Sala, “From Russell-Square to Kensal-Green”, in Belgravia, a London Magazine, volume V (second series); XV (first series), London: Office: […], page 455:

For the most beautiful description of the Lido, as well as of everything else Venetian, I recommend my reader to the best of travellers’ books, Mr. [William Dean] Howells’s “Venetian Life.” It was an added charm to the rare city to read this book in Venice; and were I a dogess of the fourteenth century, I would have a crystal casket enriched with gems made for my copy, and it should be locked with a mediæval gold key, such as Angelo wears and Rachel played with, in the tragedy which she introduced to us.

1872 November, M[ary] E[lizabeth] W[ilson] S[herwood], “Venice”, in The Galaxy. A Magazine of Entertaining Reading., volume XIV, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Sheldon & Company, […], page 670, column 2:

Franz recognized her immediately. It was the young girl of the picture, dressed like a dogess of the fifteenth century, and rendered still more beautiful by the magnificence of her costume.

1873 November, “Orco”, in L. W. J., transl., Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume XII, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott and Co., translation of L’Orco by George Sand, page 565, column 1:

A Doge, richly and magnificently dressed, and a Dogess at his side, as richly adorned with jewellery, are stepping out on to a balustered balcony;[…]Independently of the fact that I have a pretty accurate notion of what the relations in life between this Doge and Dogess were, I am more particularly struck by the subdued richness and power that characterises the picture as a whole.

1885, “The Doge and Dogess”, in J. T. Bealby, transl., Weird Tales, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, translation of original by E. T. W. Hoffmann, pages 1–2:

The form of the sepulchre of the Dogess was, perhaps, suggested by the dimensions of the old fragments of the law of eurithmy.[…]It would seem that authors of this monument endeavoured to surpass that of the Dogess in magnificence, by encrusting the sides with squares of double dentils of select marbles, and by crowning them with a common cyma.

1888, William Scott, transl., The Basilica of S. Mark in Venice Illustrated from the Points of View of Art and History by Venetian Writers under the Direction of Prof. Camillo Boito, Ferdinando Ongania, page 427:

During the following days festivities were organised for the coronation of the Dogess, much more various and of longer duration than those which greeted her husband’s elevation to the throne. In older times, when the head of the Republic still possessed real power, his wife played no official part in State ceremonies.

1905, Francis Marion Crawford, “x Doges in Fourteenth Century”, in Salve Venetia: Gleanings from Venetian History, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, […], page 297:

A ‘poetical temperament’ might see an Athenian democracy electing a neo-medieval Doge and Dogess of Venice to revive as a first step to social renewal the communism of the apostles.

1986, Malcolm Hardman, Ruskin and Bradford: An Experiment in Victorian Cultural History, Manchester, Dover, N.H.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 298:

The present Doge is Silvester Valerio. He has been Doge about eight years (and) is almost 70 years old. He has an old lady which they call the Dogess. There has not been a Dogess before this 300 years.

2002, Alice Thomas, transl., Richard Creed’s Journal of the Grand Tour, 1699-1700: […], Oundle Museum, translation of original by Richard Creed, →ISBN, page 43:

Synonym of dogaressa (“wife of a doge”).


overscent

overscent (third-person singular simple present overscents, present participle overscenting, simple past and past participle overscented)

overscents (present singular third-person)
overscenting (participle present)
overscented (participle past)
overscented (past)

/ˌəʊvəˈsɛnt/

It is never good taste to overscent one’s-self, but a person who uses no kind of artificial perfume at all, neither in soap nor in pomade, nor yet in the linen, is not always the most agreeable.

1873, “Perfumes”, in Every Saturday, Series 3, Volume 3, No. 20, 17 May, 1873, p. 555:

Cologne and perfume are nice but use in moderation. If you overscent, you run the risk that your interviewer dislikes the smell, or even has a bad reaction to it.

2000, Ronni Eisenberg, Organize Your Job Search,, New York: Hyperion, page 155:

A young lady does not spray herself with so much sun-ripened raspberry body splash that she attracts bees. She particularly does not overscent herself if she is going to be in a confined space with captive companions.

2012, Kay West, chapter 11, in How to Raise a Lady,, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, page 120:

“Just spray in front of you, dear girl,” he advises. “Then walk into the mist. It’s vulgar to overscent.”

2013, Maureen Lindley, A Girl Like You, London: Bloomsbury, page 293:

(intransitive, reflexive) To apply too much scent to oneself.


forescent

an appalling forescent of his own near approaching discomfiture

1832, [Isaac Taylor], “chapter 13”, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC, page 229:

The patriarchs and prophets inhaled the sweet odour of Christ, Who was preordained to be born and to die in the flesh; yet they did not then give forth the same odour, because they could not exhibit in the flesh Him of Whom they had a fore-scent in the spirit.

1920, anonymous translator, St. Bernard’s Sermons on the Canticle of Canticles, Dublin: Browne & Nolan, Volume 2, Sermon 60, p. 190:

An allusion to the garlic breath of the groundlings provides a forescent of the evil smells that pervade the Genoan court.

1986, Charles R. Forker, chapter 1, in Skull Beneath the Skin: The Achievement of John Webster, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, page 79:

She opened the door on the night and felt the sudden damp forescent of autumn brush past her.

1998, Niall Williams, Four Letters of Love, New York: Warner Books, Part 7, Chapter 4, pp. 237-238:

A scent that indicates something in advance.


overabuse

overabuse (third-person singular simple present overabuses, present participle overabusing, simple past and past participle overabused)

overabuses (present singular third-person)
overabusing (participle present)
overabused (participle past)
overabused (past)


researchship

/ɹɪˌsɜːt͡ʃˈʃɪp/

/ˌɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ-/

/ˌɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃˈʃɪp/

/ɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃ-/

Eight stations were occupied by the researchship Ryofu-Maru along the 30° N-line which crossed the Japan Trench at the vicinity of Ramapo Deep, during the period from May 12 to June 20.

1958, Japanese Contribution to the International Geophysical Year 1957/8, Tokyo: National Committee of the International Geophysical Year, Science Council of Japan, →OCLC, page 148:

On the new scientific researchship everything is aimed at subjecting the sea to the will of man and making ships even more reliable and comfortable, and more inhabitable, as the specialists say.

1971, Soviet Union: Daily Report, volume 71, [Reston, Va.]: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC:

This brings to my mind the important statement which Henry [Bryant] Bigelow made when he was asked by Rockefeller foundation authorities, "What would you like to have first, a building or a researchship", and his prompt answer was "a ship".

1990, Walter Lenz, Margaret Deacon, editors, Ocean Sciences: Their History and Relation to Man: Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on the History of Oceanography, Hamburg, 23.–29. 9, 1987 (Deutsche hydrographische Zeitschrift [German Hydrographic Journal]; no. 22), Hamburg: Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie [Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency], →OCLC, page 545: