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To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]

To lure; to cheat. [Obs.] Gower.

A cheat; a trick; a hoax. Hudibras.

To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] Pope.

One who cheats; a sharper. [Colloq.] Spectator.

Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.

To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. Shak.

A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.

g that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble. Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. Shak.

To cheat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.

Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.

A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

in reciting a chant. To chant (or chaunt) horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.

ith wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus. [U. S.]

To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. [Slang]

To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.] I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. Shak.

A cheat of drawers or a bureau. (b) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel. (c) A kind of close stool.

To play the thief; to steal. [Cant] But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius. Marston.

One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. [Obs.] Shak.