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Trick   /trɪk/   Listen
noun
Trick  n.  
1.
An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade. "He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick." "I know a trick worth two of that."
2.
A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
3.
Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
4.
A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning. "The trick of that voice I do well remember." "He hath a trick of Coeur de Lion's face."
5.
A knot, braid, or plait of hair. (Obs.)
6.
(Card Playing) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. "On one nice trick depends the general fate."
7.
(Naut.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, usually two hours.
8.
A toy; a trifle; a plaything. (Obs.)
Synonyms: Stratagem; wile; fraud; cheat; juggle; finesse; sleight; deception; imposture; delusion; imposition.


verb
Trick  v. t.  (past & past part. tricked; pres. part. tricking)  
1.
To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
2.
To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in air." "People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds." "They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been."
3.
To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry. "They forget that they are in the statutes:... there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees."





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"Trick" Quotes from Famous Books



... average tourist, met there by chance. I assured her that such was the fact. I called attention to the apparent deliberation of the water's fall, a trick of the senses resulting from failure to realize height ...
— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard
... granddaughter of a Normandy proprietaire. She sang, in a half-rude, half-melodious way, snatches of songs which sounded better than they really were, she sang them with so much heartiness and abandon. She embroidered exquisitely, and had learned the trick of making many of the pretty and useless things at which nuns work so patiently to fill up their long hours. She had an insatiable love of dress, and attired herself daily in successions of varied colors and shapes ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... ways o' this here southern country!" he exclaimed in a pained tone, "A big, hungry, wild animal, tryin' to pass itself off ez, an old dead log. Up in Kentucky, a good honest bear, or even a sneakin' panther, would be ashamed to look you in the face after tryin' to play sech a low-down trick on ...
— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler
... anything! So I had figured I would just jog back to Sunk Creek and let you get away, if you did not want to say that kind of good-by. For I saw the boxes. Mrs. Taylor is too nice a woman to know the trick of lyin', and she could not deceive me. I have knowed yu' were going away for good ever since I saw those boxes. But now hyeh comes your letter, and it seems no way but I must speak. I have thought a deal, lyin' in this room. And—to-day—I can say what I have thought. I could not make you happy." ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... learned that success of any kind is predicated upon keeping ourselves in trim, and in good humor. Keeping in trim is no trick at all. We can make it a part of every physical action and as keeping in trim means perfection of body and soundness of mind we should never neglect to utilize any effort that will help us toward bodily efficiency. There is exercise in stooping over to pick up a pin if ...
— Laugh and Live • Douglas Fairbanks


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