deceit, fraud.

The action of covering up the eyes; hoodwinking; the apparatus used in the action; the state produced.

Deceit, deception.

The action of juggle, v.. the practice of trickery or deception.

The action of beguile, v.: deluding, delusion, deception; beguilement.

The action of deceive, v.; deception.

A deceit, esp. an act of false flattery; a trick. Also: a fictitious narrative or statement, a falsehood.

The action of befooling with false impressions or beliefs; the fact or condition of being cheated and led to believe what is false.

The use or employment of sophistry; the process of investing with specious fallacies or of misleading by means of these; falsification.

The action of circumventing; overreaching, outwitting, or getting the better of any one by craft or artifice.

The practice of cheating; swindling, trickery.

The action of cheat, v. Fraud, deceit, swindling.

Cheating, dishonest practice: see cross, n. 29.

The action of cheating, deceiving, or beguiling; trickery, deceit; in quot. 1669, †the sophistication of wine (obsolete).

The action or an act of deluding, manipulating, or deceiving someone. With on, upon. Cf. practise, v. 1d. Obsolete.

The action of cheating or defrauding; deception, fraud. Obsolete.

The action of delude, v.: cheating.

Underhand or secret action.

Distraction or diversion from the point at issue or real state of affairs; deception; (Military) diversion of the enemy's attention from one's real…

The use of ‘conveyance’ or underhand practices; deceitful contrivance. Obsolete.

The action or practice of deluding or cheating a person. Cf. bubble, v. 5. Obsolete.

The practice of jockeying; trickery, artifice, adroit management for unfair advantage.

The action of overreach, v. (in various senses); an instance of this.

Adroit management for the purpose of gaining an advantage, esp. an unfair one; trickery, cheating.

The action or process of beguiling; also, its agencies and resulting condition or state.

The practice of gagging.

the action of a trickster (also attributive).

The action of getting or trying to get the better of someone by charging too much or paying too little; cheating, swindling. Also occasionally: an…

(a) the removal of wool from a sheepskin; (b) the act of pulling the wool over a person's eyes; deception.

The action of rig, v.5; esp. the action of manipulating something in a fraudulent or underhand manner. Also: an instance of this.

= old soldiering, n.

The practice of coming the old soldier (cf. old soldier, n. 1c); = old soldierism n. at old soldier, n. derivatives.

Cheating, swindling.

The practice of cheating, swindling, or defrauding. Also: an instance of this. Now rare.