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hocus
(encz) | hocus,klamat v: Zdeněk Brož |
hocus
(encz) | hocus,omámit v: Zdeněk Brož |
hocus
(encz) | hocus,podvádět v: Zdeněk Brož |
Hocus
(gcide) | Hocus \Ho"cus\, v. t. [See Hocus-pocus.]
1. To deceive or cheat. --Halliwell.
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2. To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused
for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. --Dickens.
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3. To stupefy with drugged liquor. --Thackeray.
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Hocus
(gcide) | Hocus \Ho"cus\, n.
1. One who cheats or deceives. --South.
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2. Drugged liquor.
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hocus-pocus
(encz) | hocus-pocus,balamutit v: Zdeněk Brožhocus-pocus,hokus-pokus n: Zdeněk Brož |
Hocus
(gcide) | Hocus \Ho"cus\, v. t. [See Hocus-pocus.]
1. To deceive or cheat. --Halliwell.
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2. To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused
for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. --Dickens.
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3. To stupefy with drugged liquor. --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]Hocus \Ho"cus\, n.
1. One who cheats or deceives. --South.
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2. Drugged liquor.
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Hocus-pocus
(gcide) | Hocus-pocus \Ho"cus-po"cus\, v. t.
To cheat. [Colloq.] --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]Hocus-pocus \Ho"cus-po"cus\, n. [Prob. invented by jugglers in
imitation of Latin. Cf. Hoax, Hocus.]
1. A term used by magicians or conjurers in pretended
incantations.
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2. A juggler or trickster. [Archaic] --Sir T. Herbert.
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3. A magician's trick; a cheat; nonsense. --Hudibras.
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4. Obfuscating talk or elaborate but meaningless activity
intended to hide a deception or to obscure what is
actually happening; verbal misrepresentation intended to
take advantage of you in some way.
Syn: trickery, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery,
skulduggery, skullduggery.
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hocus-pocus
(wn) | hocus-pocus
n 1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you
in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness,
hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery,
skullduggery] |
phocus
(foldoc) | PHOCUS
An object-oriented Prolog-like language.
["PHOCUS: Production Rules, Horn Clauses, Objects and Contexts
in a Unification Based System", D. Chan et al, Actes du Sem
Prog et Logique, Tregastel (May 1987), pp. 77-108].
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