Syn. — Stratagem; wile; fraud; cheat; juggle; finesse; sleight;
deception; imposture; delusion; imposition.
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.
2. To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; — often
followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in air." Pope.
People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine
clothes, and yet starve their minds.
Locke.
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.
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.
B. Jonson.
Trick"er (?), n. One who tricks; a trickster.
Trick"er, n. A trigger. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Boyle.
Trick"er*y (?), n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud;
imposture.
Trick"i*ness (?), n. The quality of being tricky.
Trick"ing, a. Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
Trick"ing, n. Dress; ornament. Shak.
Trick"ish, a. Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to
deception and cheating; knavish. — Trick"ish*ly, adv. — Trick"ish*ness,
n.
Tric"kle (trk"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled (trk"k'ld); p. pr. &
vb. n. Trickling (trk"klng).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen,
freq. of striken to flow, AS. strcan. See Strike, v. t.] To flow in a
small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
His salt tears trickled down as rain.
Chaucer.
Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream.
Spenser.
Trick"ment (?), n. Decoration. [Obs.] " No trickments but my tears."
Beau. & Fl.
Trick"si*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being tricksy;
trickiness. G. Eliot.
Trick"ster (?), n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Trick"sy (?), a. [From Trick.] Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My
tricksy spirit!" Shak.
he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state
wisdom.
Coleridge.
Trick"track` (?), n. [F. trictrac. Cf. Ticktack backgammon.] An old
game resembling backgammon.
Trick"y (?), a. Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish;
knavish.
Tric"li*nate (?), a. (Min.) Triclinic.
Tri*clin"i*a*ry (?), a. [L. tricliniaris. See Triclinium.] Of or
pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at
table.
Tri*clin"ic (?), a. [Pref. tri- + Gr. &?; to incline.] (Crystallog.)
Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique
angles. See the Note under crystallization.
||Tri*clin"i*um (?), n.; pl. Triclinia (#). [L., from Gr. &?;, &?;; &?;
||(see Tri- ) + &?; a couch.] (Rom. Antiq.) (a) A couch for reclining
||at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in
||three parts. (b) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
||
Tri*coc"cous (?), a. [Gr. tri`kokkos with three grains or berries; &?;
(see Tri-) + ko`kkos grain, seed.] (Bot.) Having three cocci, or
roundish carpels. Gray.
Tri"col`or (?), n. [F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a tricolored flag,
fr. tricolore three- colored; tri (see Tri-) + L. color color.]
[Written also tricolour.]
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red,
adopted at the first revolution.