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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To play upon; mock; deceive with false hopes.

Wiktionary

  1. v. literary to delude, fool

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin illūdō. (Wiktionary)

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  • ruzuzu Pterodactyl, thank you! I saw a horse on la playa today, after I ate some fresh pineapple. I did not ask to join the folks who were playing Scrabble at another table. Feb 18, 2010

  • bilby We could strap her to a sled and shove her down a mountain.

    *is feeling helpful* Feb 18, 2010

  • reesetee Oh, no! Not during the Olympics! Feb 18, 2010

  • pterodactyl Ruzuzu, on a triple word score, would be worth 42 points. This means that she herself is a thing of rare beauty. It also means that she'll have trouble building up momentum. Feb 18, 2010

  • ruzuzu *grins*
    Thanks, bilby! Feb 17, 2010

  • bilby Sometimes ruzuzu scares me. Feb 17, 2010

  • ruzuzu I used to play a lot of Scrabble with graduate students in creative writing (poets). I had one friend who kept score by writing down each word played, rather than the word's worth. I had another friend who was always sharing strange new words found in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, but wasn't very good at finding places to play those words on the board.

    When I started playing, I hated to keep score and searched for wonderful words only. But I've found that something interesting happens when you play for points. When you begin to strategize--memorizing the 2-letter words, holding on to the Q until there's a Triple Letter Score--suddenly the words become more interesting because of the context of how they're placed on the board. You begin to move from free verse into the realm of the.... Well, I was going to say sonnet, but I suppose it's more of an obsessive sestina (which Wordnik tells us is worth just 7 points, but which, if played using all the tiles in your rack, and then through a Triple Word Score, can be a thing of rare beauty). Feb 17, 2010

  • Prolagus That's how it should be! Feb 17, 2010

  • milosrdenstvi When I play Scrabble with my friends, we keep all our tiles visible to everybody so that we can play cooperatively; scoring is based on subjective decisions about the prettiness of the word. Essential aim is to make the most interesting board possible. Feb 17, 2010

  • Prolagus I confess I am terrible at Scrabble. I can't just play random words worth a zillion points like many do. My S.O. says it's because I look for pretty words instead. Which is flattering, but probably false. Feb 17, 2010

  • bilby Must be. I've never played. Feb 17, 2010

  • ruzuzu Oh! Is it my turn? Feb 17, 2010

  • Prolagus ...Not accepted on "Words with friends" (Scrabble-like application for iPhone). :-( Feb 17, 2010

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