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Webster 1913 Edition

Cheat

Cheat

,
Noun.
[rob. an abbrevation of
escheat
, lands or tenements 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 or supposed, that were resorted to in procuring escheats. See
Escheat
.]
1.
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.
2.
One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
Airy wonders, which
cheats
interpret.
Johnson
3.
(Bot.)
A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; – called also
chess
. See
Chess
.
4.
(Law)
The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
Syn. – Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick; swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem.

Cheat

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cheated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Cheating
.]
[See
Cheat
,
Noun.
,
Escheat
.]
1.
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.
Shakespeare
2.
To beguile.
Sir W. Scott.
Syn. – To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.

Cheat

,
Verb.
I.
To practice fraud or trickery;
as, to
cheat
at cards
.

Cheat

,
Noun.
[Perh. from OF.
cheté
goods, chattels.]
Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
[Obs.]
Drayton.
Their purest
cheat
,
Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.
Chapman.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cheat

CHEAT

, v.t.
1.
To deceive and defraud in a bargain; to deceive for the purpose of gain in selling. Its proper application is to commerce, in which a person uses some arts, or misrepresentations, or withholds some facts, by which he deceives the purchaser.
2.
To deceive by any artifice, trick or device, with a view to gain an advantage contrary to common honesty; as, to cheat a person at cards.
3.
To impose on; to trick. It is followed by of or out of, and colloquially by into, as to cheat a child into a belief that a medicine is palatable.

CHEAT

,
Noun.
1.
A fraud committed by deception; a trick; imposition; imposture.
2.
A person who cheats; one guilty of fraud by deceitful practices.

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