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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



... face to the gallery in which the choir sat. Beside him was a youth fresh from Millbank. The hoary sinner was evidently initiating the green hand into the mysteries of his new home. He was loud in his responses, but his voice had a trick of dropping ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... definitions kill the spirit. To define a great man by a rigid formula is to sink to the lowest practice of the worst class rooms. To define a tendency so sharply that it cannot flow without breaking the definition, is a lecturer's trick for which audiences should stone him. Solemn generalizations which squat upon a book like an ostrich on a goose egg and hatch out vast moral philosophies are to be dreaded like the devil, as are, equally, the critics with pet theories, who, having defined them, make everything from ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby
... Sherburne, youthful though most of them might be, were veterans. They knew every trick of war, and columns of infantry swept forward to meet the attack, preceded by the skirmishers, who took ...
— The Shades of the Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler
... no use, then; so I laughed, and admired, and was very much in love and very happy; and she showed me Jip's new trick of standing on his hind legs in a corner—which he did for about the space of a flash of lightning, and then fell down—and I don't know how long I should have stayed there, oblivious of Traddles, if Miss Lavinia had not come in to take me away. Miss Lavinia was very fond of ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
... Look at my old woman, look at the old Kummerfelden. All women of the better sort have had their little whimsies when they were young. But you see, women learn to think in another fashion from men. Men come to it sooner—people teach them the trick. You see, I'm telling you the thing just as I see it ... They go to school longer; they learn their trade; they've got to play a part in the world. Of course a good deal of it is put upon them artificially—it doesn't always come ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various


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