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mislines

mislines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misline.

Meaning of misline

Verb

misline (third-person singular simple present mislines, present participle mislining, simple past and past participle mislined)

  1. To incorrectly divide into lines.
    • If the addition was in verse, he might set it up as prose or misline it, placing perhaps too many or too few feet in a line and thus throwing out the whole arrangement of the verse.1931, Lawrence Counselman Wroth, The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine, page 338

Questions about mislines

What is mislines the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mislines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misline.

Words near mislines in the dictionary

  1. mislikings
  2. mislin
  3. misline
  4. mislineation
  5. mislined
  6. mislines
  7. misling
  8. mislining
  9. mislink
  10. mislinkage
  11. mislinked

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