Word Meanings - SKELDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To deceive; to cheat; to trick. B. Jonson.
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- TRICKISH
Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n. - CHEATABLE
Capable of being cheated. - TRICKERY
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. - TRICKTRACK
An old game resembling backgammon. - TRICKINESS
The quality of being tricky. - TRICKSTER
One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat. - CHEATABLENESS
Capability of being cheated. - DECEIVER
One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor. The deceived and the deceiver are his. Job xii. 16. Syn. -- Deceiver, Impostor. A deceiver operates by stealth and in private upon individuals; an impostor practices his arts on the - DECEIVE
deceive; de- + capere to take, catch. See Capable, and cf. Deceit, 1. 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 insnare. Evil - TRICKMENT
Decoration. " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl. - TRICKER
A trigger. Boyle. - TRICKY
Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish. - TRICKSY
Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge. - TRICKLE
To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. Spenser. - TRICKING
Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott. - CHEATER
1. One who cheats. 2. An escheator. Shak. - TRICKSINESS
The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot. - TRICK
The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice - CHEAT
1. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. Shak. 2. To beguile. Sir W. Scott. To cheat winter of its dreariness. W. Irving. Syn. -- - ESCHEATOR
An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill. - STRICKLE
An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle. - UNDECEIVE
To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South. - DOGTRICK
A gentle trot, like that of a dog. - TRACHEATE
Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata. - MOONSTRICKEN
See MOONSTRUCK - AWE-STRICKEN
Awe-struck. - ESCHEATAGE
The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood. - STRICK
A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight. - ESCHEAT
escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- + cheoir, F. choir, to The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction