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All Fools' Day :: All Fools' Day () The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced..

Cheat :: Cheat (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

Stultify :: Stultify (v. t.) To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc..

Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward..

Subject :: Subject (v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions..

Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..

Slur :: Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.

Take-in :: Take-in (n.) Imposition; fraud.

Humbuggery :: Humbuggery (n.) The practice of imposition.

Swindlery :: Swindler (n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat..

Iconoclast :: Iconoclast (n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.

Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4..

Priestcraft :: Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others..

Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To obtrude by fraud or imposition.

Trail :: Trail (n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax..

Bam :: Bam (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

Superciliary :: Superchery (n.) Deceit; fraud; imposition.

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