Meaning of छल in English
- The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.
- An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
- Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
- The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.
- The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.
- Tendency to mislead or deceive.
- To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.
- The act or practice of duping.
- Alt. of Fraudulency
- The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness.
- Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
- To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
- A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.
- To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.
- That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
- An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
- A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
- A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
- A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.
- A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
- To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
- To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.
- To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
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