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

mismetred
mismetres
mismigrated
mismove
mismoved
mismoves
mismoving
misname
misnamed
misnames
misnaming
misnomer
misnomered
misnomering
misnomers
misnumber (current term)
misnumbered
misnumbering
misnumbers
misnurture
misnurtured
misnurtures
misnurturing
miso
miso-
misobedience
misobserve
misobserved
misobserves
misobserving

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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