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n imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube.

one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention. Ordered the admission of St. Patrick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof. Fuller.

To practice trick or deception. To impose on or upon, to pass or put a trick on; to delude. "He imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things." Locke.

An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition. Shak.

Undivided. [R.] Bp. Patrick.

The tricks of a jade.

To jest; to play tricks; to jeer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A piece of sport; a trick; a prank. [Obs.] Is't not a fine jig, A precious cunning, in the late Protector Beau & Fl.

ard Playing) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to play to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.

To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.

The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery. Beaconsfield.

To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.

One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them. Sir T. Browne.

Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery.

Cheating; tricky. -- Jug"gling*ly, adv.

A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack. A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap. Shak.

Trickish; artful. [Obs.] -- Knack"ish*ness, n. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak. In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools. Ames.