ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

delusion, gullery † ; juggling, jugglery † ; slight of hand, legerdemain; prestigiation † ,
prestidigitation; magic &c 992; conjuring, conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie † ,
jockeyship † ; trickery, coggery † , chicanery; supercherie † , cozenage † , circumvention,
ingannation † , collusion; treachery &c 940; practical joke.
trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus,
bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing
seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon
travelers; stratagem &c (artifice) 702; confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft &c 791; ballotbox
stuffing [U.S.], barney [Slang]; brace game [Slang], bunko game, drop game
[Slang], gum game [U.S.], panel game [U.S.], shell game, thimblerig, skin game [U.S.].
snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe † , springle † ; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to
the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime;
dionaea † , Venus's flytrap † ; ambush &c 530; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; springnet,
spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap † ; green goods [U.S.];
panel house.
Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing &c (deceiver) 548; disguise, disguisement † ;
false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes; pattes de velours [Fr.].
mockery &c (imitation) 19; copy &c 21; counterfeit, sham, make-believe, forgery,
fraud; lie &c 546; a delusion a mockery and a snare [Denman], hollow mockery.
whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false
jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola † , ormolu, German silver, albata † , paktong † , white
metal, Britannia metal, paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw.
illusion &c (error) 495; ignis fatuus &c 423 [Lat.]; mirage &c 443.
V. deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false,
bilk, cully † , jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes;
blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool † , bamboozle,
flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.
impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon;
snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush [Slang], gum [U.S.], spoof [Slang],
stuff (a ballot box) [U.S.].
circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march upon, give the
go-by, to leave in the lurch decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap † ,
ensnare; nick, springe † ; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay † ,
spread the toils, lime; trapan † , trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle † , nousel † ; blind a
trail; enmesh, immesh † ; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate † ,
hocus, escamoter † , practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up [Slang],
sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put
one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a
fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of † , make an ass of; trifle
with, cajole, flatter; come over &c (influence) 615; gild the pill, make things pleasant,
divert, put a good face upon; dissemble &c 544.
cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits, play at hide and
seek; obtain money under false pretenses &c (steal) 791; conjure, juggle, practice
chicanery; deacon [U.S.].
play off, palm off, foist off, fob-off.