misle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fine rain or thick mist; mizzle. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To rain in fine drops; to mizzle.
    — I know a woman of fashion, who is perpetually employed in remarks upon the weather, who observes from morning to noon, that it is likely to rain, and from noon to night, that it spits, that it misles, that it is set in for a wet evening; and, being incapable of any other discourse, is as insipid a companion and just as pedantic as he who quotes Aristotle over his tea, or talks Greek at a card-table.
  2. To mislead. humorous,nonstandard,rare
    — I think Caspari has been misling you somewhat on the subject of Scenedesmus: the cells divide essentially as in Chlorella, but stay in 4 or 8-celled colonies until the next division.

词形变化

misles present,singular,third-person misling participle,present misled participle,past misled past misles present,singular,third-person misling participle,present misled participle,past misled past

词源

词源 1
Probably a blend of mist + drizzle.
词源 2
From misled, the standard irregular past tense of mislead, being misconstrued as *misle + -ed.
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