CHEAT, verb transitive 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.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI