a & n. See Achæan, Achaian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An apron or covering for the front of the person. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i. ] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Abbrev. fr. “good cheap”: a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon marché, à bon marché. See Cheap, n., Cheapen. ] 1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean. [ 1913 Webster ]

You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Cheaply. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To buy; to bargain. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cheapened p. pr. & vb. n. Cheapening. ] [ OE. cheapien, chepen, to trade, buy, sell, AS. ceápian; akin to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaupōn to trade. Cf. Chap to bargain. ] 1. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. Cheap, a. ] To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cheapens. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A seller of low-priced, shoddy, or second goods; a hawker.
Syn. -- huckster, hawker, tout. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. [ Obs. ] See Cheer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ rob. an abbrevation of escheat, lands or tenements that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real or supposed, that were resorted to in procuring escheats. See Escheat. ] 1. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. [ 1913 Webster ]

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. [ 1913 Webster ]

Airy wonders, which cheats interpret. Johnson [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When cheats are effected by deceitful or illegal symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large and against which common prudence could not have guarded, they are indictable at common law. Wharton.

Syn. -- Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick; swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 cheated me of this island. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beguile. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cheat winter of its dreariness. W. Irving.

Syn. -- To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. from OF. cheté goods, chattels. ] Wheat, or bread made from wheat. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their purest cheat,
Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being cheated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being cheated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who cheats. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An escheator. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. costing much less than standard price; as, the store went out of business and sold their remaining stock for dirt-cheap prices.
Syn. -- bargain-priced, cut-rate, cut-price. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. (Pros.) Containing two trochees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. cheap; inexpensive and of inferior quality; as, an el cheapo cigar. [ jocose slang ] [ PJC ]

{ , n. [ OF. enchaison, fr. L. incidere to happen; in + cadere to fall. ] Occasion, cause, or reason. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. eschete, escheyte, an escheat, fr. OF. escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir (F. échoir) to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- (L. ex) + cheoir, F. choir, to fall, fr. L. cadere. See Chance, and cf. Cheat. ] 1. (Law) (a) (Feud. & Eng. Law) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder. Tomlins. Blackstone. (b) (U. S. Law) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A distinction is carefully made, by English writers, between escheat to the lord of the fee and forfeiture to the crown. But in this country, where the State holds the place of chief lord of the fee, and is entitled to take alike escheat and by forfeiture, this distinction is not essential. Tomlins. Kent.

(c) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which falls to one; a reversion or return [ 1913 Webster ]

To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Esheated; p. pr. & vb. n. Escheating. ] (Law) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this country it is the general rule that when the title to land fails by defect of heirs or devisees, it necessarily escheats to the State; but forfeiture of estate from crime is hardly known in this country, and corruption of blood is universally abolished. Kent. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Law) To forfeit. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Liable to escheat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Escheat. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Escheator. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Larynx + tracheal. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Of or pertaining to the Manichaeans. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ LL. Manichaeus: cf. F. manichéen. ] A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Manichaeans stand as representatives of dualism pushed to its utmost development. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in cheating. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Surrounding the tracheæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Proto-, and Trachea. ] (Zool.) Same as Malacopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pro-, and Trachea. ] (Zool.) Same as Malacopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. requêté, fr. requêter to hunt anew. See Request. ] (Sporting) A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To blow the recheat. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Tracheae [ NL., from L. trachia, Gr. trachei^a (sc. &unr_; windpipe), from &unr_; rough, rugged: cf. F. trachée. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf.F. tracheal. ] Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheae. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae. -- n. (Zool.) One of the Trachearia. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheae, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiae. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Breathing by means of tracheae; of or pertaining to the Tracheata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any arthropod having tracheae; one of the Tracheata. [ 1913 Webster ]