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stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade. tricks of the trade mean simply specialized knowledge, in a good or neutral sense. He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick. South. I know a trick worth two of that. Shak.

One who tricks; a trickster.

The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

The quality of being tricky.

Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.

Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.

To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. Spenser.

Decoration. [Obs.] " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl.

The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.

One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.

Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.

An old game resembling backgammon.

Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

Awe-struck.

A gentle trot, like that of a dog.

To trick, to perplex. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Shocked; dismayed.

See Moonstruck.

Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. Burke.

Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.