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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
artifice, cabal, chicane, chicanery, collusion, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, counterplot, deep-laid plot, dodgery, engineering, finagling, finesse, foul play, frame-up, game, intrigue, little game, machination, maneuvering, manipulation, pettifoggery, pettifogging, plot, plotting, practice, rigging, scheme, schemery, scheming, sharp practice, skulduggery, sleight, stratagem, supercherie, trick, trickery, underhand dealing, underplot, web of intrigue, wire-pulling
Dictionary Results for covin:
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Covin \Cov"in\ (k?v"?n), n. [OF. covine, covaine, fr. covenir to
   agree. See Covenant.]
   1. (Law) A collusive agreement between two or more persons to
      prejudice a third.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Deceit; fraud; artifice. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster]
2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
COVIN, fraud. A secret contrivance between two or more persons to defraud and

prejudice another of his rights. Co. Litt 357, b; Com. Dig. Covin, A; 1 Vin. 
Abr. 473. Vide Collusion; Fraud.
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