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The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.

Repetition of a bellow. [R.] Bp. Patrick.

nance to; to rebuff. The more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his tricks. De Quincey.

, and increases the penalties for failing. The score or penalty depends on the number of tricks over or under the contract, according to a defined schedule, and depending on the vulnerability of the side attempting the contract.

A rick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

m the covenants in the lease. Burrill. Card of reëtry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand.

To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister. [Obs.] How he refelled me, and how I replied. Shak.

ich the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas.

A going back; a retrogression; a return. [R.] Herrick.

, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church. Bp. Fitzpatrick.

pretation of an idea, theme, or part. (c) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. Gwilt. (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.

The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.

To meet a wager on, as on the taking of a trick, with a higher wager. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.

To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. [Obs.] Spenser.

The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden.

A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. Wycherley.

Tricks deserving the halter; roguery. [Obs.] "Saucy merchant . . . so full of his ropery." Shak.

The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.