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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.

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.

The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay.

After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops. Trickling dropwise from the cleft. Tennyson.

To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery. Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits. Coleridge.

ed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak.

Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.

The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

A plain suit in which a player (or side) could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.

A trick; a swindle. [Slang]

fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another "Play fast and loose with faith." Shak. Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arrange…

A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.