Foist
Foist (foist) , noun
[Old French fuste stick, boat, from Latin fustis cudgel. Compare 1st Fust.]
A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obsolete] — Beau. & Fl
Foist , transitive verb
[Compare OD. vysten to fizzle, Dutch veesten, English fizz, fitchet, bullfist.]
To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.
Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption.
When a scripture has been corrupted... by a supposititious foisting of some words in.
Foist , noun
1.
A foister; a sharper. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson
2.
A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson