The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
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of Beat
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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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The act of deceiving or misleading.
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of Dissemble
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The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy.
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To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
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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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The act or practice of duping.
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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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Alt. of Fraudulency
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A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.
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An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
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The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.
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To talk; to speak; to prattle.
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To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
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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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Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
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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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Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
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A professional rider of horses in races.
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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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The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
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A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
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