Word Meanings - GULLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to GULLERY)

• GULLISH
  Foolish; stupid. Gull"ish*ness, n.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• FRAUDFUL
  Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.
• GULL
  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.
• GULLIBLE
  Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- Gul"li*bii`i*ty, n. Burke.
• FRAUDULENTLY
  In a fraudulent manner.
• GULLY
  A large knife. Sir W. Scott.
• GULLET
  The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus. 2. Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions; as: A channel for water. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations,
• GULLER
  One who gulls; a deceiver.
• GULLAGE
  Act of being gulled. Had you no quirk. To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature B. Jonson
• FRAUDULENCE; FRAUDULENCY
  The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.
• GULLETING
  A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.
• GULLERY
  An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. "A mere gullery." Selden.
• FRAUDULENT
  1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton. 3. Obtained or performed
• FRAUDLESS
  Free from fraud. -- Fraud"less*ly, adv. -- Fraud"less*ness, n.
• FRAUD
  An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another. 3. A trap or snare. To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud. Milton. Constructive fraud , an act, statement, or omission which operates
• SELDEN
  Seldom. Chaucer.
• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• DEFRAUDATION
  The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. Sir T. Browne.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• YAZOO FRAUD
  The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for 0,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo
• SEA GULL
  Any gull living on the seacoast.
• DEFRAUDMENT
  Privation by fraud; defrauding. Milton.