Word Meanings - MISDIRECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies. Shenstone.

Related words: (words related to MISDIRECT)

• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.
• PASSENGER MILE
  A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• MISDIRECTION
  An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• WRONGFUL
  Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• WRONGHEAD
  A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• MISDIRECT
  To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies. Shenstone.
• DIRECTION
  The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• WRONG-TIMED
  Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
• LETTERING
  1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
• LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• SEA LETTER
  The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
• UNDERLETTER
  A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.
• BLACK-LETTER
  1. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. 2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden. 3. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• BLOODLETTER
  One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE