misplay (mispla)

[ All balls moved by the mis - play must be returned to their former position by the umpire or adversary. Tribune Book of Sports , p. 445. misplead (mis-plēd'), v. i. [ plead .] To plead ami or in a wrong manner. mispleading (mis-plē'ding), n. [Verbal n. of misplead, v.] In law, an error in pleading. Perhaps the mispleading of a word shall forfeit all. Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 482. ( Davies .) mispleaset (mis-plēz'), v. t. [ Schulde neuere than this erthe for this erthe mysplese heuene king. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 90. mispoint (mis-point'), v. t. [ point . ] To point improperly; punctuate wrongly. mis policy (mis-pol'i-si), n. [ mis -1 + policy1 .] Bad policy; impolicy. nis practice (mis-prak'tis), n. [ prac tice .] Wrong practice; misdeed; misconduct. mispraise (mis-prāz'), v . t . and i.; pret. and pp. mispraised , ppr. mispraising . [ The "biographical infection," the natural frailty to mis praise and overpraise, has not failed to show itself. Nineteenth Century , XXIV. 341. misprint (mis-print'), v. t. [ print .] To make an error in printing (something); print wrong. There might haue bene some ouersight, either in himself or in the printer, by mi e writing or by mi e prynt ynge those figures of algor is me. Sir T. More, Works, p. 772.