misreckon

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Misreckon, mis,-rek′n, v.t. to reckon or compute wrongly.—n.

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"The foul ill take me," quoth Meg, "if I misreckon him one penny, and therefore, vicar, before thou goest out of these doors I shall make thee pay every penny;" and then she immediately lent him such a box on the ears as made him reel again.

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He had the art besides to misreckon men in their accounts, whether by weight or measure or money; and if a question was made of his faithful dealing, he had his servants ready that would vouch and swear to his look or word.

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If I do not misreckon foully the queen spoke of both seeing and speaking with him during her progress hither.

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You promised that it would be within two months at farthest; and now, unless my desire to have you back makes me misreckon the time, you have been absent nearly three.

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