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Cunning; craft; artful practice. [Obs.] "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer.

Cunning; dexterous. [Obs.]

Cunningly. [Obs.] Huloet.

Cunning; sly. [Obs.] Huloet.

Partnership in power; equal share of authority. [Obs.] Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness, Ne may with Venus holde champartye. Chaucer.

nds to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand. Dealing with witches and with conjurers. Shak. From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. Prior.

Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. "Dexterous sleights of hand." Trench.

To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false. What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double. J. Webster.

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.

The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.

Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South.

One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.

To impose by frand, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off. For you may palm upon us new for old. Dryden.

Artful; deceitful; skillful. [Obs.] "Cunning sleights and practick knavery." Spenser.

Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.

One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.

tic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second- sight. Trumbull.

Sleight. Spenser.

See Sleightful. [Obs.]