Cheapness

State or quality of being cheap; lowne in price by comparison with intrinsic value, or customary rate of cost. Cheap's ide, in New Jersey, a village of E ex co., 10 m. Newark. Chear, n. and adv . Old spelling of CHEER, q. v. Cheat, v . a . [From ESCHEAT, q . v.] To practise ext or- tion and fraud; to defraud; to impose upon; to effect or obtain by trick, artifice, or low cunning; to deceive; to outwit; to beguile. "Doubtle the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." -Hudibras . -n. A deceitful, dishonest act; a fraud; deception; trick; imposition; imposture. "When I consider life, 't is all a cheat ." - Dryden. -A person who cheats or is guilty of fraud; a deceiver. (Law.) The offence of fraudulently obtaining the property of another by any deceitful or illegal practice short of felony, but in such a way as that the public interest may po ibly be affected. In order to constitute C., the fraud must be of such a kind as that it could not be guarded against by common prudence. C., in this sense, is an offence at common law, and indictable, which is not the case with imposition in a private transaction.