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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it referred to "a hoax; a jesting or befooling trick," as well as any "thing which is not really what it pretends to be," like a sham or fraud.

That she had been befooling him; that she loved Frederick St. John with an impassioned lasting love, appeared to him as clear as the stars in a frosty sky.

Methinks one or both of them is befooled by first love.'

She saw this man Paroff's hand; and here was the chance to befool and humiliate him and send him off packing to his cold and miserable country.

Erbury then declared that the wisest ministers and the purest churches were at that time befooled, confounded, and defiled by reason of learning.