gull

A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.

The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.

Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again.[…]For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.

A cheating trick; a fraud.

BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.

A stupid animal.

One easily cheated; a dupe.

A swindler or trickster.

You'll excuse me, sir, but as you are fresh, take care to avoid the gulls; they fly about here in large flocks, I assure you, and do no little mischief at times." "I never understood that gulls were birds of prey," said I.—"Only in Oxford, sir; and here, I assure you, they bite like hawks, and pick many a poor young gentleman as bare before his three years are expired, as the crows would a dead sheep upon a common. […]"

To deceive or cheat.

O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.

The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.

To mislead.

To trick and defraud.

To flatter, wheedle.