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ith plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. Milton.

To put off by trickery; to cheat. [Obs.] I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day. Shak.

Trick; jest; sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To cheat; trick, or gull. [Obs.] Johnson.

Antic tricks or motions. B. Jonson.

A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [Obs.] Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks Shak.

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

g-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there. -- Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides…

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.

An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. [R.] "A mere gullery." Selden.

cies of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.

Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery. [Colloq.]

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. Percy Smith. As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. Johnson. Harlequin bat (Zoöl.), an Indian bat (Scotophilus ornatus), c…

To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. Milton.

A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke. Macaulay.

A juggler or trickster. Sir T. Herbert.

Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.

Horror-stricken; horrified. M. Arnold.

A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.