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A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [Slang] Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek. Sat. Rev.

A person easily duped or cheated. Swift.

etting southwardly into the Bay of Benin on the coast of Guinea.-- Guinea dropper one who cheats by dropping counterfeit guineas. [Obs.] Gay. -- Guinea fowl, Guinea hen (Zoöl.), an African gallinaceous bird, of the genus Numida, allied to the pheasants. The common domesticated species (N. meleagris), has a colored fle…

To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

shrewdness; common sense. [Colloq.] One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated. Lord Lytton.

The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.

A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To deceive or cheat. Halliwell.

A juggler's trick; a cheat; nonsense. Hudibras.

cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat. Swift.

bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination. To cheat the eye with blear illusions. Milton.

sive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition. Shak.

Imposture; cheating. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson.

Cheat; deception. [Obs.] Sir T. Brown.

To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude. Ford.

A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.

A deceiver; a cheat. Shak.

Cheating; tricky. -- Jug"gling*ly, adv.

t or member of, or attachment to, something else. Shak. That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows. Sir W. Scott.