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Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

To cheat by cunning or deception.

To act; to behave; to practice deception. His mother played false with a smith. Shak.

to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Cæsar's death.

. 24. -- To come round, to gain the consent of, or circumvent, (a person) by flattery or deception. [Colloq.]

The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.

Self-deception; delusion. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of deceiving one's self, or the state of being self- deceived; self-deception.

The trick of a shopkeeper; deception. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.

Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.

To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.

Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful. "Bear a wary eye." Shak. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men. Milton.

A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11. Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. Milton.…