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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See Bromine.
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any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions
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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 press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…
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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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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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The act of deceiving or misleading.
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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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The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
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Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injure…
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One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.
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A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
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To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
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To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
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To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
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One who injures another, or who does wrong.
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To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
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To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a credito…
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A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
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Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.
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To make the noise of the cuckoo.
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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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A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
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To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreac…
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To totter, as a child in walking.
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One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
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To make false; to represent falsely.
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The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
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To take out the entrails of (herrings).
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A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.
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To blind by covering the eyes.
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A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…
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A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
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To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.
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To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate…
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To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.
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A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
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To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.
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To pull; to draw.
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A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
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A ridge.
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The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mi…
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Mist; fog. See Roke.
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Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
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To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…
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To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
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To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
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To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
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See Welsh.
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Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
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A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.
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One who, or that which, betrays.
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One who bluffs.
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A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.
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One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
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Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.
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One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.
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The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.
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To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to dec…
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A defaulter or embezzler.
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One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.
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One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite.
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One who dissimulates; a dissembler.
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One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
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One who embezzles.
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One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
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One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.
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The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
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A freak; a trick; a lie.
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One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
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A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…
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Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injure…
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The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
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To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advant…
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To take out the entrails of (herrings).
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See Plum Gouger.
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A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.
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To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
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One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be othe…
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One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.
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One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.
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A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.
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One who leads into error.
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One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends ar…
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Same as Obscurant.
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One who peculates.
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One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.
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One who prevaricates.
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An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.
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That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
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One who shams; an impostor.
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A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.
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One who steers; as, a boat steerer.
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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…
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One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
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A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
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One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yie…
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One who utters.
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One who cheats.
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One who cheats.
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To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
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To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
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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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One who, or that which, beguiles.
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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…
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One who cheats.
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A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bi…
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The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; tr…
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A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a m…
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To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.
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A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
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Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium…
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One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.
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Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injure…
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A professional rider of horses in races.
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A ridge.
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A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to l…
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The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
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That which makes smooth or sleek.
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To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
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Tore.
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One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
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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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