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Trickery; also, a trick. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. Sir W. Scott. And now and then an ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek. Shak. Whispered sounds Of waters, trilling from the riven stone. Glover.

To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.

To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. Rowe. To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.

One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

A sly trick or device; as, an undercraft of authors. [R.] Sterne.

Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; unfair practice; trickery. Milton.

A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.

Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal. You come, like an unfair merchant, to charge me with being in your debt. Swift. -- Un*fair"ly, adv -- Un*fair"ness, n.

Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.

in; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.

Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks. [Obs.] Feltham.

Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.

Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine eye." Shak. Villainous judgment (O. E. Law), a judgment that casts reproach on the guilty person. --- Vil"lain*ous*ly, adv. Vil"lain*ous*ness, n.

A deal at cards that draws all the tricks. Swift.

The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy. Locke. A drollery and lurking waggery of expression. W. Irving.

Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. -- Wag"gish*ly, adv. -- Wag"gish*ness, n.

Considerably; not a little; far. Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age. Gen. xviii. 11.

A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11. Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. Milton.…

Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.