Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.] Dressed up into any feint appearance of it. Locke.
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.
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.
To make a feint, or mock attack.
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