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s indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. Every little fetch of wit and criticism. South.

A juggler's trick; conjuring. [Obs.] The devil is the author of wicked figgum. B. Jonson.

tand. "Canst thou by searching find out God" Job. xi. 7. "We do hope to find out all your tricks." Milton. -- To find fault with, to blame; to censure. -- To find one's self, to be; to fare; -- often used in speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this morning

A freak; trick; quirk. [Obs.] Ford.

To trick up in a showy manner. Limning and flashing it with various dyes. A. Brewer.

of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated.

To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.

One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne.

A freak; a trick; a lie. Beau. & Fl.

A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming.

To cheat; to trick; to impose on. Shak. To fob off, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." Milton.

A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." Shak.

A trickly fellow; a cheat. [Obs.] Evelyn. Denham.

tifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.

Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.

The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.

Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.

To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport. Hither, come hither, and frolic and play. Tennyson.