What is to trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses. Fooled and shammed into a conviction. L'Estrange called?
sham — To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses. Fooled and shammed into a conviction. L'Estrange. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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