Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cheat"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cheat \Cheat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cheated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Cheating}.] [See {Cheat}, n., {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. --Shak.
2. To beguile. --Sir W. Scott.
To cheat winter of its dreariness. --W. Irving.
Syn: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent;
beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach;
delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cheat \Cheat\, n. [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.
Note: When cheats are effected by deceitful or illegal
symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large
and against which common prudence could not have
guarded, they are indictable at common law. --Wharton.
Syn: Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick;
swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cheat \Cheat\, v. i.
To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cheat \Cheat\, n. [Perh. from OF. chet['e] goods, chattels.]
Wheat, or bread made from wheat. [Obs.] --Drayton.
Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued
in paste. --Chapman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chess \Chess\, n. (Bot.)
A species of brome grass ({Bromus secalinus}) which is a
troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously
regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very
slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with
wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic
effects; -- called also {cheat} and {Willard's bromus}. [U.
S.]
Note: Other species of brome grass are called upright chess,
soft chess, etc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cheat
n 1: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other
cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
[syn: {darnel}, {tare}, {bearded darnel}, {Lolium
temulentum}]
2: weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a
weed especially in wheat [syn: {chess}, {Bromus secalinus}]
3: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
[syn: {deceiver}, {cheater}, {trickster}, {beguiler}, {slicker}]
4: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme: "that book
is a fraud" [syn: {swindle}]
5: a deception for profit to yourself [syn: {cheating}]
v 1: deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat
me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were
cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled
me out of my money" [syn: {beat}, {rip off}, {chisel}]
2: defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
[syn: {chouse}, {shaft}, {screw}, {chicane}, {jockey}]
3: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;
"Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: {chisel}]
4: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She
cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
[syn: {cheat on}, {cuckold}, {betray}, {wander}]
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