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One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang] "The gentleman cadger." Dickens.

. -- Canada porcupine (Zoöl.) See Porcupine, and Urson. -- Canada rice (Bot.) See under Rick. -- Canada robin (Zoöl.), the cedar bird.

A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief. [Written also cantraip.] [Scot.]

A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.

A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia.

A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.] This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false. Swift.

A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Dryden.

A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.

tree (Castanea vesce) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California.

ion from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton.

To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.

To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.

One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket. Johnson.

To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion. Herrick.

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.

A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.