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A dawdler. Colman & Carrick.

tic] So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton.

Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

n a play by James Kenney, entitled "Raising the wind." The name is applied to any needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence man.

A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. To cut a dido, to play a trick; to cut a caper; -- perhaps so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.

make unfamiliar. [Obs.] While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.

Disassimilative processes constitute a marked feature in the life of animal cells. McKendrick.

To torture; to excruciate. [Obs.] Discruciate a man in deep distress. Herrick.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton.

One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices. Smart.

trickery; artifice. [Obs.] Hacket.

A trick, joke, or deception. Beau. & Fl. To give one the dor, to make a fool of him. [Archaic] P. Fletcher.

To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false. What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double. J. Webster.

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.

A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. Dryden.

An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.

To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [R.] Thomson.

One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew. Prior.