Word Meanings - MISGUESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To guess wrongly.

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• GUESS
  cf. Dan. giette to guess, Icel. geta to get, to guess. Probably 1. To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture. First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess. Pope. 2. To judge or
• GUESS ROPE
  A guess warp.
• GUESSER
  One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.
• GUESS WARP
  A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
• GUESSINGLY
  By way of conjecture. Shak.
• GUESSIVE
  Conjectural. Feltham.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• GUESSWORK
  Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
• GUESSABLE
  Capable of being guessed.
• FOREGUESS
  To conjecture.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• MISGUESS
  To guess wrongly.