Gypsy

n.; pl. Gȳp'sies. [O. Eng. Gyptian, from Fr. Egyptien, an Egyptian, a gypsy, Lat. Ægyptius.] [Also spelled gipsy and gypsey.] 1. One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in the 14th or 15th century, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, &c., living by theft, fortune-telling, horse-jockeying, tinkering, and the like. Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. Shak.

2. A dark-colored person. Shak.
3. A cunning or crafty person. [Colloq.]