Thesaurus: foist

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1. n. A light and fast-sailing ship.
2. v. t. To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.
3. n. A foister; a sharper.
4. n. A trick or fraud; a swindle.
5. v. to force onto another
6. v. insert surreptitiously or without warrant
7. A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or fois in abuses corruption. R. Carew. When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South. 1. A foister; a sharper. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 2. A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
8. A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
9. v:100 v. to force onto another v. insert surreptitiously or without warrant