Note 18 — Chapter VI · THE MEANING OF THE WORD “WRONG”
Reading edition
As follows:
1. Crooked, twisted, or wry. (Obsolete)
2. Disordered, not properly adjusted, as in the expression: “I’ve heerd my aunt say as she found out summat was wrong wi’ Nancy as soon as the milk turned bingy.”
3. Incorrect, or uncorrected; that is, not according to requirement, intention, purpose, or desire, as wrong ideas, wrong courses, the wrong font of type, etc.
4. Esthetically undesirable or unsuitable, as,—“You have put the wrong side of the cloth outermost.”
5. Erroneous or mistaken belief or assertion.
6. “In the wrong box” (slang), in an awkward situation, mistaken.
7. Perverse, wilfully mistaken or erroneous. (Cf. “evil.”)
8. Unjust action; violation of obligation or propriety; a tort.
9. Harm or “evil” inflicted; damage or detriment suffered; an injury, mischief, or hurt; pain imparted or received.
10. To be “in the wrong”; to be mistaken, to act or think incorrectly or unjustly.
11. “To have wrong”; to be mistaken; to act erroneously or unjustly.
12. “To have wrong”; to suffer injury; e. g., “Cæsar has had great wrong.”
13. “To put in the wrong”; to represent erroneously.
14. “To go wrong”; not to run smoothly, as of machinery.
15. “To go wrong”; to go astray from the intended direction.
16. “To go wrong”; to do “evil.”
17. To “wrong”; to treat unfairly, unjustly, or harmfully; to oppress, offend, or injure.
18. “To wrong”; in an old nautical sense, to take the wind from the sails of a ship which is sailing in line with another to windward.