Crossword-Solution: PALMING 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Sometimes, after palming off a particularly fantastic and outrageous lie upon me, he was so 'full of laugh' that he had to step aside for a minute, upon one pretext or another, to keep me from suspecting.

When in this state they found no difficulty in palming it off upon the uninitiated as an inferior metal, and very easily transmuted it into fine sonorous gold again, with the aid of a little aquafortis.

Though I was exceedingly ruffled, I could not help laughing at the mad cameriere's palming himself upon R--y, as a sensible fellow, and transferring the charge of madness upon his master, who seemed to be much more knave than fool.

His object in finding their whereabouts--apart from the wish to assist Owen--had been to see Manston, ask him flatly for an explanation, and confirm the request of the message in the presence of Cytherea--so as to prevent the possibility of the steward’s palming off a story upon Cytherea, or eluding her brother when he came.

The same desire to get rid of the effete Mother of the Corn by palming her off on other people comes out clearly in some of the customs observed at the close of threshing, particularly in the practice of passing on a hideous straw puppet to a neighbour farmer who is still threshing his corn.