mislight

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ light

Verb

mislight (third-person singular simple present mislights, present participle mislighting, simple past and past participle mislighted or mislit)

1. To deceive or lead astray with a false light.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mislight”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)