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A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.

Having no wind; calm.

A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Shelley.

nsume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift.

The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.

To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. Carlyle.

One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.

Swindling; rougery. [R.] "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.

To waste away; to dwindle.

A swindler; one who deceives by trickery. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot.

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]

To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. Shak.

A swindler. B. Jonson.

ing operation in which advantage is taken of the confidence reposed by the victim in the swindler. -- Confidence man, a swindler. -- To take into one's confidence, to admit to a knowledge of one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.

A cheat; a swindle. [Slang, Eng.]

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To dwindle away; to disappear. [Obs.] Rom of R.

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

public land has been paid to the officer entitled to receive it. [U.S.] -- Land shark, a swindler of sailors on shore. [Sailors' Cant] -- Land side (a) That side of anything in or on the sea, as of an island or ship, which is turned toward the land. (b) The side of a plow which is opposite to the moldboard and which pr…