misˈcry, v. dial. ? Obs.
Also miscree.
[app. alteration of descry v.1, by substitution of the prefix mis-1 9.]
trans. To descry, discover, detect.
| 1645 N. Drake Diary Siege Pontefract (Surtees) 76 One of them was taken, being miscryed by the boy which went out the night before. 1674 Ray N. C. Words 33 Miscreed: descryed, This I suppose is also only a rustick word, and nothing else but the word descried corrupted. 1703 Thoresby Let. to Ray Gloss., Miscryed, discovered. 1847 Halliwell, Miscreed, discovered, detected, decried, depreciated. North. |