trick 
Several memtars of Congress had previously com- 
plained Unit tlir demonetization Hchcme t 1*7:1 had been 
puxhcd Hiifffjitltiuuwly through the courses of Its passage. 
Congress having been trickfd into accepting ft, doing It 
snin 'i'Iv knrw what. W. Wilton, Cong. (;v., III. 
II. iiitrmix. 1. To use trickery, deception, or 
imposture. 
Thus they jog on, still trickiivj, never thriving, 
Anil inurilering plays, which still they cull reviving. 
Dryiftn, To Uranvllle. 
2. To juggle; |>l:iy. 
We may trick with the word life In Its dozen senses 
until we arc weary of tricking, . . . but one fact remain* 
true throughout, . . . that we do not, properly speaking, 
love life at all, hut living. It. L. ftteeenion, JKs Triplex. 
3f. To toy; handle idly. 
The muses forbid that I should restrain your meddling, 
whom I see already busy with the title and tricking over 
the leaves. It. Jontan, Catiline, To the Reader. 
trick 1 (triki, H. [< trick 1 , r. ; prob. in part < 
MD. tnrk, I ). trek, a trick, a pull, draft, etc. : 
see trick 1 , r., and cf. track 1 .'} 1. A crafty or 
fraudulent device; a deceitful expedient; an 
artifice; a stratagem. 
There Is some trick in this, and you must know it, 
And he an agent too. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iv. 2. 
But you see they haue some trickett to cousin God, as 
before to cousin the Diuell. I'urchas, Pilgrimage, p. 213. 
U, the rare tricki of a Machlavellan I 
Webster, White Devil, v. 1. 
2. A feat or an exhibition of skill or dexterity, 
as in juggling or sleight of hand. 
He can do tricki with his toes, wind silk and thread 
pearl with them. B. Jonton, Pan's Anniversary. 
Entertain any puppy that comes, like a tumbler, with 
the same trick* over and over. 
Coiujreoc, Old Batchelor, L 4. 
3. A roguish or mischievous performance; a 
prank ; a practical joke ; a hoax. 
If I be served such another trick, I'll have my brains 
ta'en out and buttered, and give them to a dog fora new- 
year's gift. Shak., M. W. of W., lit 6. 7. 
To play a trick and make some one or other look foolish 
was held the most pointed form of wit throughout the 
back regions of the manor. George Elial, Felix Holt, ill. 
4. A foolish, vicious, or disgraceful act: with 
disparaging or contemptuous force. 
Didst thou ever see me do such a trick! 
Shot., T. O. of V., Iv. 4. 48. 
I hope you don't mean to forsake it ; that will be but a 
kind of a mongrel cur's trick. 
Congreve, Old Batchelor, Iv. 6. 
8. A peculiar art ; skill; adroitness; knack. 
Here 's fine revolution, an we had the trick to see 't 
Mnk., Hamlet, v. 1. 99. 
In a little while the trick of walking on the edge of the 
water close to the side wall had been learned. 
The Century, XXXIX. 220. 
6. A peculiar trait, manner, habit, or practice; 
a characteristic ; a peculiarity ; a mannerism. 
In you a wlldness is a noble trick, 
And cherish'd in ye, and all men must love It. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, ill. 2. 
What shall I say of the manifold and strange fashions of 
the garments that are used now-a-days? . . . Sometime 
we follow the fashion of the Frenchmen. Another time 
we will have a trick of the Spaniards. 
Beam, Early Writings (ed. Parker s.ie.X p. 204. 
We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told, 
Of talking (In public) as if we were old. 
0. W. Holmes, The Boys. 
7. A trace ; a suggestion ; a reminder. 
He hath a trick of Cojur-de-lion's face. 
Mat., K. John, 1. 1. 86. 
8. Something pretended or unreal; a sem- 
blance; an illusion. 
Truth Itself is in her head as dull 
And useless as a candle in a scull. 
And all her love of God a groundless claim, 
A trick upon the canvas, painted flame. 
Camper, Conversation, 1. 782. 
In this poor tri<-k of paint 
You see the semblance, incomplete and faint, 
Of the two-fronted Future. 
Whittirr, The Panorama. 
0. Any small article; a toy; a kuickknack; a 
trifle; a trap; a mere nothing: sometimes ap- 
plied to a child. [Obsolete or provincial U. S.] 
Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell, 
A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap. 
Shak., T. of the S., Iv. 8. 67. 
The women of this countrey weare aboue an hundreth 
trick and trifles about them. Uakhujt't Voyage*, II. 64. 
Camp tricki should be kept In their places, not thrown 
helter skelter, or left lying where last used. 
Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 640. 
Vainly the mother tried to hush the child ; the prisoner 
called out, "Gimme the little trick, Sis; she jes wants to 
get tub me." The Century, XL. 219. 
10. In eitrd-iiliiyiinj, the cards collectively which 
are played in one round. In whist and many other 
card-games the number of tricks taken makes up the score 
0471 
on which the winning or losing of the game depends. A 
whist trick U complete when the cards are turned ami 
quitted. 
Here ' trick of discarded cards of us ! we were rauk'd 
with coats as lung as old master lived. 
Middltton, Matringer, and Knotty, Old Law, III. 1. 
W ln-ii In doubt, win the trick. 
lloyle, Twenty-four Rule* for Beginners, ill. 
11. \aiit., a spell; a turn; the time allotted to 
a iimn tost a ml at the helm, generally two hours. 
This night It was iny turn to steer, or, as the sailors lay, 
my trick at the helm, for two hours. 
It. 11. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 29. 
12. A watch. TufPsGlosnaryoi I Im N ' .iiinjon 
(1798). [Thieves' slang.] -The odd trick. Sw 
odd. To know a trick worth two of that, to know 
of some better contrivance or expedient. 
Nay, by God, soft ; I know a trick worth tiro of that, 
i' faith. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., 11. 1. 41. 
Hear what he says of you, sir 1 Clive, best be off to bed, 
my boy ho, ho : No, no. We know a trick vorth two o/ 
that. Thackeray, >'ewcomes, L 
To serve one a trick, See*n*i. Tricki oftha trade, 
the expedient*, artifices, and dodges of t craft or business ; 
devices or stratagems Intended to attract custom or to 
gain some advantage over one's customers or one's rival*. 
= Syn. 1. Manaeueer, Stratagem, etc. (see artifice}, fraud, 
Imposition, Imposture, deception, fetch, 
trick- (trik), r. t. [Prob. another use of trick 1 , 
r., as derived from the noun in the sense 'a 
dexterous artifice,' or ' a touch.' Cf. also trick*. 
According to some, < W. treciaw, furnish or har- 
ness, trick out, < tree, an implement, harness, 
gear.] To dress; trim; deck; prank; specifi- 
cally, to arrange, dress, or decorate, especially 
in a fanciful way, as the person or the hair: of- 
ten followed by out or up. 
For he [Cato) found not his Country . . . utterly de- 
stroyed, but tossed in a dangerous tempest ; and being not 
of authority like the Pilot to take the sterne In hand, and 
governe the ship, he took himself to tricking the sailes, 
and preparing the tackle, so to assist men of greater 
power. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 624. 
The Canari put their wlues to the drudgery abroad, 
whiles theniselues spin, weaue, tricke rp themseluea, and 
perf urine other womanish functions at home. 
Purehai, Pilgrimage, p. 886. 
The women celebrated of old for their beauties yet 
carry that fame. . . . They have their head trickt with 
tassels and flowers. Sandy*, Travalles, p. 12. 
A country playhouse, some rude barn 
Tricked out for that proud use. 
Wordiworth, Prelude, vll. 
trick 3 (trik), v. t. [< MD. trecken, D. trekken, 
pull, draw lines, delineate, sketch, = OFries. 
trekka, tregga. North Fries, trecke, tracke = LG. 
trekken = MHG. trtcken = Dan. trtekke, draw; 
a causal form of OHO. trehhan, MHG. treclien, 
pull, push, shove. From the same source are 
ult. E. track 1 , and tricker, now trigger. Cf. 
also trek and trick 1 . This verb seems to have 
been confused with trick* , deck ; cf. trick- 
ment.'} In her. : (a) To draw, as a bearing or 
a collection of bearings, or a whole escutcheon 
or achievement of arms. The word Implies the rep- 
resentation graphically of armorial bearings In any sense, 
and should be used Instead of blown, which properly 
means to describe in words. 
They are blazoned there ; there they are tricked, they 
and their pedigrees. B. Jonton, Poetaster, I. I. 
(b) Especially, to draw in black and white only, 
without color, or to sketch slightly, whether a 
bearing or a whole achievement. 
This seal was exhibited to the Heralds at their Visita- 
tion of Northants, 1618, "antlqnum Siglllnm argenteum," 
and Is tricked in their original MS. 
Tram. Bat. Sac. of Laneuthire and Cheshire, N. S., V. 83. 
trick 4 t, " and . An obsolete form of trig 1 . 
In two bows that I have, . . . the one 1s quick of cast, 
trick, and trim both for pleasure and profit ; the other Is a 
lug, slow of cast, following the string, more sure for to 
last than pleasant for to use. 
Atcham, Toxophllus (ed. 1864), p. 14. 
But tell me, wench, hast done 't so trick Indeed 
That heaven Itself may wonder at the deed ? 
Peele. Arraignment of Paris, I. :'.. 
trick-dagger (trik'dag'er), n. A dagger the 
blade of which slips back into the hilt. 
tricker 1 (trik'er), n. [< trick 1 + -er 1 . Cf. 
treacher.] One who tricks; a cheat; a trick- 
ster. 
tricker-t, An obsolete form of trigger. 
Tricker firelock, a hand-firearm of the close of the reign 
of Charles I., so called because discharged by pulling a 
trigger or tricker. See trickerJock. Jour. Brit. Archxol. 
Am, XI. 255. 
tricker-lock (trik'er-lok), ii. A gun-lock ar- 
ranged with a tricker or trigger of any descrip- 
tion. Match-tricker locks and wheel-tricker 
locks were in use in the seventeenth ceuturv. 
trickery (trik'er-i), . [< trick 1 + -fry 1 . Cf. 
treachery (ME. tricherie, < OF. tricherie, etc.).] 
The practice of tricks or deceits; artifice; im- 
posture. 
trickly 
The nomination-day was a great epoch of successful 
trickery, or, to speak III a more I'arllanientary iiianni i . "I 
war stratagem, on the part "f skilful m.- 
Otoryr Kliiit, rYlU Holt, XXX. 
trickily (trik'i-li), nilr. In 11 tricky iimmicr; 
trii-kislih . 
trickiness (trik'i-ne*), . Tin- quality of Ix-ing 
tricky or Irickish; Iriekinlmess. 
The right of tin- l.lind to sk charity lapses If It become* 
a mere business and with all the trirkineu by which a 
street business Is sometimes characterised. 
Hayheic, London Labour and London Poor, I. MM. 
tricking 1 (trik'ing), /. . [1'pr. of (//<',', r.) 
I'raetisingorplnyiiiK tricks; tricky; deceitful; 
artful. 
Oo get thee gone, and by thyself 
Devise some tricking game. 
RMn Hood and the Golden .4 .row (Child's Ballsds, V. S8S). 
We presently discovered that they were as expert thieves. 
and as tricking in their exchanges, as any people we had 
yet met 1th. Cook, Second Voyage, II. 7. 
tricking- (trik'ing), n. [Verbal n. of trick*, r.] 
Articles of outfit; appurtenances, especially 
ornamental trifles. 
Co get us properties, 
And tricking for our fairies. 
Shak., M. W. of W., Iv. 4. 78. 
tricking :i (trik'ing), n. [Verbal n. of trirkS, r.] 
In her., a graphic representation of heraldic 
bearings or an entire achievement. See tri<-l. :i 
Arms verbally and technically described are blaioned ; 
the verbal description Is the blazon : if they are drawn In 
pen or pencil In monochrome, showing the lines of tinc- 
ture, they are said to be 'tricked"; such a drawing Is a 
Irirkiivj ; If they are given In gold and colours, they arc 
Illuminated or painted. X. and Q., 7th ser., V. 414. 
trickish (trik'ish),. [ri<*i + -i**i.] Given 
to or characterized by trickery ; deceitful ; art- 
ful. 
80 loose and slippery and trickith way of reasoning. 
Bp. AUertntry, To Pope, March 2e, 1721. 
The chimpanzee . . . Is extremely kind to chlldren.show- 
Ing no trickuh or malicious temper, even endeavoring to 
amuse them, and Induce them to play. 
Pop. Set. Mo., XIII. 43.'. 
= Bvn. Deceptive, roguish. See cunning 1. 
trickishly (trik isn-li), adr. In a trickish man- 
ner ; artfully ; deceitfully. 
trickishness (trik'ish-nes), H. The state of be- 
ing trickish, deceitful, or artful. 
charges of duplicity, management, artifice, and Irickish- 
net*. V. KIWI, Winter Evenings, xxlv. 
trickle (trik'l). t'.; pret. and pp. trickled, ppr. 
trickling. [< ME. triklen, trikilen, trekelen; prob. 
a var. of striklen (with which it interchanges), 
trickle, freq. of striken, rarely ME. triken, go: 
see strike. In mod. times the word has been 
regarded as connected with trill 1 . Cf. Sc. friw- 
We, also trintle, trickle.] I. intrans. 1. To flow 
in a small interrupted stream; run down in 
drops: as, water trickles from the eaves. 
The red blode triklond to his knee. 
MS. Cantab. Ft. v. 48, f. 122. (Halliicrll.) 
Nay ! f ul of sorowe thou now me seest ; 
The teeris trikilen dowun on my face, 
For "fllius regis mortuus est." 
Political Poem*, etc. (ed. Furnlvall), p. 207. 
2. To let fall a liquid in drops or small broken 
streams; drip. 
The three tall fireplaces . . . make one think of the 
groups that must formerly have gathered there of all 
the wet boot-soles, the trickling doublets, the stiffened 
lingers, the rheumatic shanks. 
11. Jamet, Jr., Little Tour, p. 121. 
3. To pass or flow gently like a small stream. 
How fluent nonsense trickle* from his tongue t 
I'ope, Dunciad, III 201. 
II. trim*. To cause to trickle ; pour or shed 
in small, slow streams. 
With adroit and tender hands they aided the doctor, 
and trickled stimulants down her throat. 
C. Rtade, Hard Cash, xxxvll. 
trickle (trik'l), H. [< trickle, r.] 1. A trickling 
stream; a rill. 
Delicious as trickle* 
Of wine poured at mass-time. 
ttntrniiuj. Another Way of Love. 
2t. See the quotation. 
Cacarrtle (It.), the tricHct or dung of sheepe goats, rats, 
or conies. florio, 1588. 
tricklet (trik'let), H. [< trickle + -<.] A small, 
trickling stream; a rill. 
My business lay In the two Anstrutbers. A trieklet of 
a stream divides them, spanned by a bridge. 
R. L. Stetentm, Scribner's Mag , IV. 511. 
trick-line (trik'lin), . Thent., a cord, made 
very strong and smooth, used in the working 
of pantomimic changes. 
trickly 1 (trik'li ). tide. [< trick 1 + -/y.] Neatly ; 
deftly; cleverly. 
