misle

noun

1. (uncountable)A fine rain or thick mist; mizzle.

verb

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. (humorous, nonstandard, rare)To mislead.

   “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.”

   “The conduct of the agency coupled with the D. C. Office of Personnel amounts to misling [sic] the appellant as to her [sic] appeal rights to detrimentally rely upon the conduct of her [sic] agency.”

   “Very early I had a relationship to the language of transgression and subversion. i was not as precocious. when i was younger i didn't know when i was on the wrong side of the Law. my errors, my subversions, were unconscious, secreted and embraced somehow by my skin, nerves, blood, a body theatened by language which was slowly misling it.”

   “You're comparing calls for service to patrolling as a security guard, you know it and you should be ashamed for misling and lying.”

   “So Gordon Ramsay is misling his entire American audience? They never actually discuss the "garnish," but on the rare occasions when he yells at someone for screwing up a "garnish," it's always a potato or vegetable.”