Bilk

1. n. A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
2. v. t. To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
3. n. A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
4. n. A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
5. n. Nonsense; vain words.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.