Definition of "mislaying" []

• Present participle of mislay. (verb)

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• "It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign."
• "'mislaying' this one list is supposed to be that he had suppressed in it the name of his former friend's son; and no second formal list for"
• "I shall hope for it if you have, and I will leave with you on Monday morning my random reconing for the last year of what I have received, your Books will supply the dates which I have lost through mislaying a paper."