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