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Word Meanings - BEFOOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive. This story . . . contrived to befool credulous men. Fuller. 2. To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. "Some befooling drug." G. Eliot.

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  • TREPAN
    A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
  • TRICKISH
    Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
  • TRICKERY
    The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
  • TRICKTRACK
    An old game resembling backgammon.
  • TRICKINESS
    The quality of being tricky.
  • TRICKSTER
    One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
  • TREPANIZE
    To trepan. "By trepanizing the skull." Jer. Taylor.
  • TRICKMENT
    Decoration. " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl.
  • TRICKER
    A trigger. Boyle.
  • BAMBOOZLER
    A swindler; one who deceives by trickery. Arbuthnot.
  • GAMMONING
    The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays. Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed. -- Gammoning hole
  • TRICKY
    Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
  • TREPANNER
    One who trepans. " Pitiful trepanners and impostors." Gauden.
  • TRICKSY
    Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.
  • GAMMON
    The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.
  • TRICKLE
    To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. Spenser.
  • TRICKING
    Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
  • TREPANG
    Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also bêche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of Holothuria, especially
  • TRICKSINESS
    The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.
  • BAMBOOZLE
    To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. Addison. What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you J. H. Newman. (more info) Bamboozling ( Etym:
  • TRICK
    The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
  • STRICKLE
    An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
  • UNBEFOOL
    To deliver from the state of a fool; to awaken the mind of; to undeceive.
  • DOGTRICK
    A gentle trot, like that of a dog.
  • MOONSTRICKEN
    See MOONSTRUCK
  • AWE-STRICKEN
    Awe-struck.
  • STRICK
    A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight.
  • BACKGAMMON
    A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called
  • STRICKEN
    1. Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer. Note: 2. Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21. Abraham was old and well stricken in age. Gen. xxiv. 1. 3. Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.

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