Word Meanings - CONY-CATCHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. Minsheu.

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• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• CHEATABLENESS
  Capability of being cheated.
• DECEIVER
  One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor. The deceived and the deceiver are his. Job xii. 16. Syn. -- Deceiver, Impostor. A deceiver operates by stealth and in private upon individuals; an impostor practices his arts on the
• CHEATER
  1. One who cheats. 2. An escheator. Shak.
• CHEAT
  A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. (more info) that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• TRACHEATE
  Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
• ESCHEATAGE
  The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.
• ESCHEAT
  escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- + cheoir, F. choir, to The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction
• ESCHEATABLE
  Liable to escheat.
• BELLYCHEAT
  An apron or covering for the front of the person. Beau. & Fl.
• TRACHEATA
  An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheæ, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiæ.
• OUTCHEAT
  To exceed in cheating.
• EXCHEAT
  See SPENSER
• EXCHEATOR
  See ESCHEATOR
• RECHEAT
  A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.
• PROTOTRACHEATA
  See MALACOPODA
• PROTRACHEATA
  See MALACOPODA