a chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.-a bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.-an incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.-soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.-the act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.-imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.