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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, catch, chicanery, chouse, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deceit, deception, design, device, dirty deal, dirty trick, dodge, expedient, fakement, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, gambit, game, gimmick, googly, grift, hoax, hocus-pocus, imposture, intrigue, jig, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, little game, maneuver, move, pass, plot, ploy, pretext, racket, red herring, scheme, scurvy trick, shift, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, tactic, trick, trickery, wile, wily device
Dictionary Results for ruse:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
ruse
    n 1: a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) [syn:
         ruse, artifice]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ruse \Ruse\, n. [F., fr. OF. re["u]ser, rehuser, to turn aside,
   to shuffle, retreat, fr. L. recusare to refuse; pref. re-
   again + causa cause. See Cause, and cf. Recusant.]
   An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
   [1913 Webster]

   Ruse de guerre[F.], a stratagem of war.
      [1913 Webster]

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