Trick
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A knot, braid, or plait of hair. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 6. (Card Playing) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. [1913 Webster] On one nice trick depends the general fate. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 7. (Naut.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours. [1913 Webster] 8. A toy; a trifle; a plaything. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Stratagem; wile; fraud; cheat; juggle; finesse; sleight; deception; imposture; delusion; imposition. [1913 Webster] Trick \Trick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tricked; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in air." --Pope. [1913 Webster] People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 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. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry. [1913 Webster] They forget that they are in the statutes: . . . there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]  trick n 1: a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it" [syn: trick, fast one] 2: a period of work or duty 3: an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick" 4: a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement [syn: antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on] 5: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers [syn: magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion, deception] 6: a prostitute's customer [syn: whoremaster, whoremonger, john, trick] 7: (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner v 1: deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week" [syn: flim-flam, play a joke on, play tricks, trick, fob, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick on]  trick [trik] wrinkle  trick [trik] Kniff; Kunst; Kunstgriff; Kunststück; List; Streich  trick [trik] artifice mystifier  trick fogás trükk  trick abitudine, vizio  trick [trik] vaframentum ars; machina  trick [trik] aanwensel; hebbelijkheid foefje; kneep; kunstgreep; streek; stunt; toer; truc bedotten; beduvelen; beetnemen; om de tuin leiden kneep; list; slimmigheid; slimmigheidje list; slimmigheid truc  trick [trik] artifício, artimanha, estratagema, subterfúgio, tramóia burlar, ludibriar, mistificar astúcia  trick [trik] mala costumbre; resabio engañar  trick [trik] knep; konstgrepp  trick Kniff m trick Kunstgriff m trick Kunst f; Kunstgriff m; Kniff m trick Kunststück m trick List f; Kniff m; Streich m trick Taschenspielertrick m trick Stich m (Kartenspiel) trick Streich m; Ulk m; Possen m trick Trick m; Masche f [ugs.] trick austricksen [ugs.] trick hereinlegen; betrügen trick tricksen  Trick m gimmick Trick m ploy; gambit Trick m trick Trick m dodge  439 Moby Thesaurus words for "trick": ability, accomplishment, ace, action, ad 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