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▪ I. misprint, n.|ˈmɪs-, formerly mɪsˈprɪnt|
[f. next.]
A mistake in printing; an error of the press.
1818in Todd. a1834[see mis-script]. 1884Q. Rev. Jan. 215 The bibliographical information..abounds in errors..many of them no doubt mere misprints.
▪ II. misˈprint, v.
[mis-1 1.]
a. trans. To print incorrectly; to make a mistake in printing.
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. cxciv. 198 If Dame Nature had any thynge forgoten or mysprynted in her. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 772/1 Leste there myght haue bene some ouersight..by misse writing or mysse pryntynge those fygures of algorisme. 1598T. Speght Chaucer's Wks. B bbb vj, This place is misprinted, as well in misnaming of the signe, as the misreckoning the degrees of the sun. 1629H. Burton Truth's Triumph 97 Vega's copie hath sanctification haply mis-printed. 1729Fenton Wks. E. Waller, Observ. (1729) p. xix, Shillingsworth, Walter, Cid, have been constantly mis-printed for Chillingworth, Waller, and Sid. 1817Coleridge Lett. (1895) 673, I would that the misprinting had been the worst of the..ill-usage.
b. intr. Of deer: to leave foot-prints in a pattern different from the usual one.
1909W. A. & F. Baillie-Grohman in Edward, Duke of York Master of Game 262 A hind..misprints, that is sometimes the hind foot will be placed beside the fore foot, sometimes inside or in front of it. 1957F. J. T. Page Field Guide Brit. Deer 71 Misprint. To step irregularly; failure to register [i.e. to place the hind feet in the slots made by the fore feet]. |