transitive. To trick, beguile, befool, deceive. Obsolete.

transitive. To play a trick on; to trick or befool.

transitive. To carry out or practise (an action); to perform or execute (a movement); (now) esp. to perform or practise (a trick, joke, deception…

To bring, get, convey, or change (away, into, etc.) by, or as by, magic or conjuring, or by trickery or deceit.

To play or toy with; to influence or move by dalliance. Obsolete.

transitive. To deceive by a trick; to cheat.

To mock, trick, cheat, gull; ? = bourd, v.1 2.

transitive. To befool; to jape. Obsolete.

transitive. To trick or deceive (someone). Obsolete.

Dice. transitive and intransitive. To retain one of the dice at the top of the box by unfair manipulation, to palm the die: cf. top, n.1 21…

figurative apparently To hoax. (Cf. frisk, v. 4b.)

transitive. To play a trick upon, ‘take in’, hoax.

A trick, hoax, fraud, imposture; something devised to impose upon, delude, or disappoint expectation; a ‘sell’. to put a sham upon: to hoax, defraud…

transitive. To cheat, trick, deceive, delude with false pretences; to impose upon, take in, hoax. Obsolete.

transitive. To cheat or cajole (a person) (out of something); to trick, deceive. Also with of. Now rare and English regional.

intransitive (a) To impose on, take advantage of (a person), to victimize. †(b) To play a joke or trick on (a person), to fool, dupe Obsolete.

colloquial. transitive. To deceive by way of a joke or trick; to hoax. Also with out. Now English regional and Irish English.

transitive. To practise humbug upon; to trick and make a jest of; to impose upon, hoax, delude.

transitive. To impose upon, hoax, take in, humbug. (slang or colloquial.)

to run a rig (and variants): to play a prank or trick. Obsolete.

transitive. To play tricks upon; to transform as if by jugglery.

slang. To make (a person) ‘swallow’, i.e. believe, false or exaggerated statements. Cf. colloquial to stuff (a person) up; and see cram, n. 3, crammer…

transitive. To deceive or take in by inducing to believe an amusing or mischievous fabrication or fiction; to play upon the credulity of.

transitive. To hoax, humbug, try to make (one) believe what is not true. Also, to joke with, tease. Also intransitive or absol., and const. along or…

transitive. To fool, deceive, humbug. slang (now chiefly U.S.).

transitive. To play (a trick, joke, etc.); to practise (a deceit). Frequently with on. Now rare.

transitive. To trick, cheat (a person); to deceive playfully.

slang. To hoax.

figurative. slang. To ‘cram’, hoax, humbug (a person). Also with up.

transitive. To make fun of, tease sportively (a person); to ride (a horse) across country.

transitive. To hoax, humbug, take in (a person).

With over: (see quot. 1857).

figurative. With complement. transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). to play it (on): to play a trick, cheat. to play (it) low down (on): to…

transitive. To hoax or humbug; †to avoid by means of a ruse. Also absol.

In slang phrase to slip (something) over (on) (someone), to take advantage of someone by trickery, to hoodwink; to slip a fast one over on (someone)…

transitive. To joke with (a person), to kid, tease verbally; to perpetrate a (generally playful) deception on (a person), to hoax, to fool.

colloquial (chiefly North American). to pull (also yank, jerk) a person's chain: to tease or trick a person, usually by telling a lie; to…

transitive. colloquial. Originally: to make fun of. Later: to deceive, ‘kid’. Now chiefly U.S.