defraud by cheating
1Cheating (law) — Criminal law Part of …
2Cheating — 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. [1913 Webster] I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath… …
3Conspiracy to defraud — is an offence under the common law of England and Wales and Northern Ireland. Contents 1 England and Wales 1.1 Relationship to statutory conspiracy etc 1.2 Incitement to conspire …
4rook — I. n. 1. Castle (in chess). 2. Cheat, trickish fellow. II. v. n. 1. Cheat, defraud, rob, ruck, cower. 2. Squat, sit close. III. v. a. Cheat, defraud by cheating, castle at chess …
5Rook — Rook, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Rooked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rooking}.] To cheat; to defraud by cheating. A band of rooking officials. Milton. [1913 Webster] …
6Rooked — Rook Rook, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Rooked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rooking}.] To cheat; to defraud by cheating. A band of rooking officials. Milton. [1913 Webster] …
7Rooking — Rook Rook, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Rooked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rooking}.] To cheat; to defraud by cheating. A band of rooking officials. Milton. [1913 Webster] …
8rook — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hrōc; akin to Old High German hruoch rook Date: before 12th century a common Old World gregarious crow (Corvus frugilegus) that nests and roosts in usually treetop colonies II. transitive verb… …
9rook — {{11}}rook (1) European crow, O.E. hroc, from P.Gmc. *khrokaz (Cf. O.N. hrokr, M.Du. roec, M.Swed. roka, O.H.G. hruoh), possibly imitative of its raucous voice. Used as a disparaging term for persons since at least c.1500, and extended by 1570s… …
10swindling — Cheating and defrauding with deliberate artifice. Usually applied to a transaction where the guilty party procures the delivery to him, under a pretended contract, of the personal property of another, with the felonious design of appropriating it …
