FEINT

a. n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.] Dressed up into any feint appearance of it. Locke.

2.
n.

That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch. Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator.

3.
n.

A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.

4.
v.

To make a feint, or mock attack.


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