To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
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To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.
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To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.
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A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); th…
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A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.
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One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
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A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
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To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.
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To blind by covering the eyes.
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To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
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To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
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imp. of Sling. Slung.
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A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
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To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to…
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To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
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To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of…
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To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
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To uncover.
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To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which…
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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
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Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
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To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.
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To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
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To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
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To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
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A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
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A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
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An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe wha…
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An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe wha…
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Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
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Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
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One who informs, animates, or inspires.
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One who informs, animates, or inspires.
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Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
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Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
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One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
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One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
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To soil. See Beray.
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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
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A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
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To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to…
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To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…
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Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
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One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…
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Self.
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imp. of Shape. Shaped.
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The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.
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To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…
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To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake.
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To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake.
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