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A guiler; deceiver. [Obs.]

To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.] Spenser.

A deceiver; one who deludes, or uses guile. [Obs.] Spenser.

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.

One who gulls; a deceiver.

To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively. Lamb.

To deceive or cheat. Halliwell.

To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. "Hoodwinked with kindness." Sir P. Sidney.

An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.

To deceive; to entice; to lure. [Obs.] The devil insnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. Fuller.

Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.

A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. [R.] Fuller.

Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive. Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or other. Tillotson.

Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy. To whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i. 3.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak.

A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt. Otway.

To deceive by trick or artifice. Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries Shak.

ricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them. Sir T. Browne.

To deceive; to outwit; to hoax. [Slang] Dickens.