Stēl'ion-ate, n.

n. [Lat. stellionatus, cozenage, trickery, from stellio, a newt, a crafty, knavish person; Fr. stellionat, It. stellionato.] (Scotch & Roman Law.) Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name;—chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, and the like. Brande. Erskine.