HOCUS. To cheat. Hence the more modern term hoax.

In the same way as I got this, showing a handful of silver, by turning autem diver, or, if you like it better, my Adam tiler. I do not understand you, Billy! Why, an autem diver is a pickpocket who practises in a church, and an Adam tiler his associate, who receives his booty …

One of the boasts of Riversley was, that while the rest of the world ate and drank poison, the Grange lived on its own solid substance, defying malefactory Radical tricksters.

Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.