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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sham \Sham\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shammed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Shamming}.]
1. To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false
pretenses.
Fooled and shammed into a conviction. --L'Estrange.
2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.]
We must have a care that we do not . . . sham
fallacies upon the world for current reason.
--L'Estrange.
3. To assume the manner and character of to imitate; to ape;
to feign.
{To sham Abram} or {Abraham}, to feign sickness; to malinger.
Hence a malingerer is called in sailors' cant, Sham
Abram, or Sham Abraham.
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