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To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket. [Colloq.]

To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand. Hoyle. To slam to, to shut or close with a slam. "He slammed to the door." W. D. Howells.

onsisting of an infusible compound of alumina and silica, and often used for making fire bricks. Tomlinson. -- Slate globe, a globe the surface of which is made of an artificial slatelike material. -- Slate pencil, a pencil of slate, or of soapstone, used for writing on a slate. -- Slate rocks (Min.), rocks which sp…

An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer.

To hit hard, esp. with little attention to aim or the like, as in cricket or boxing; to slug. [Cant or Slang]

ecially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table. -- Slop molding (Brickmaking), a process of manufacture in which the brick is carried to the drying ground in a wet mold instead of on a pallet.

Slowness; tardiness. These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. Shak.

To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.] To slur men of what they fought for. Hudibras.

Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick. Envy works in a sly and imperceptible manner. I. Watts.

Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. "In pain's smart." Chaucer.

Smart; jaunty; spruce. See Smirk, a. [Obs.] So smerk, so smooth, his pricked ears. Spenser.

A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla.

Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods. [Slang]

Real; earnest; downright. [Obs. & R.] Frederick, the emperor, . . . has spared no expense in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks. Fuller.

a human being or of a bird, insect, etc. "That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets." Hawthorne.

her; as, a spellat the pumps; a spell at the masthead. A spell at the wheel isc called a trick. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

ree of the genus Eunymus. The wood of E. Europæus was used for spindles and skewers. See Prickwood.

A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.