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Definition of Misnumber
1. v. t. To number wrongly.
Definition of Misnumber
1. Verb. (transitive) To number incorrectly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misnumber
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misnumber
Literary usage of Misnumber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"[Fol. 56*.] This should be looked to. How to remove and set trees. Cut off some
of the boughs. [Fol. 51; So misnumber- ed all the •way to the end. ..."
2. Report of the President to the Board of Directors of the World's Columbian by Harlow Niles Higinbotham (1898)
"... which greatly impaired the reliability of the audit, because occasionally the
numbering machine getting out of order, would slip and misnumber ..."
3. The Book of Husbandry by Anthony Fitzherbert, John Fitzherbert, Walter William Skeat (1882)
"... for misnumber- two causes. The bowes causeth theym to shake with wynde, and
to leuse the rotes. Also he can-not be soo cleane gete, but some of the ..."
4. The New General and Mining Telegraph Code by Charles Algernon Moreing, Thomas Neal (1907)
"Prospecting adit(s) 19.712 Mismeasure Prospecting shaft 19.714 misnumber You can
spend in prospecting 19.713 Misnomers Prospecting vigorously carried on ..."
5. The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume: With a Preface by Theodore Tilton (1897)
"... bud;—a literature which now is so watchful and painstaking in reporting the
facts of nature that no child's book to-day would dare to misnumber the legs ..."
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