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One who tricks; a trickster.

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

he vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [Colloq.] Addison. What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you J. H. Newman.

A swindler; one who deceives by trickery. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot.

One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang] "The gentleman cadger." Dickens.

To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.

tion from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

trickery; artifice. [Obs.] Hacket.

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

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.

To put off by trickery; to cheat. [Obs.] I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day. Shak.

An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. [R.] "A mere gullery." Selden.

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

Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery.

The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak.

Flattery; deceit; trickery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Trifling; trickery. [Obs.] "Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries." Milton.

dishonest management to secure the success of political candidates or parties; political trickery. When we say that two men are talking politics, we often mean that they are wrangling about some mere party question. F. W. Robertson.