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Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive. -- E*lu"so*ri*ness, n.

Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By fallacy surprised. Milton.

Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. Betrayed by falsehood of his guard. Shak.

Flattery; cajolery; deceit. [Obs.] Skeat.

To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.

th a parade of words. [Obs.] Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit. Shak.

To infatuate; to make foolish. Shak. For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. Dryden.

e making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond. Bouvier.

tage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.

Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.

The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.

Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.

Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.

Flattering; deceitful. [Obs.]

Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.

Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. -- Guile"ful*ness, n.

Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. Milton. Hollow newel (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a stairc…