Noun

(en noun)

(British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.

Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.

(pejorative, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others

Noun

(en noun)

Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

* Alexander Pope

If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.

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The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

A person who performs any such trick.

(obsolete) A trap or snare.

* Milton

to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud