
n. [ D. trek a pull, or drawing, a trick, trekken to draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and OFries. trekka. Cf. Track, Trachery, Trig, a., Trigger. ]
He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
I know a trick worth two of that. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The trick of that voice I do well remember. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
They forget that they are in the statutes: . . . there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A trigger. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who tricks; a trickster. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being tricky. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Dress; ornament. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. --
n. The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.
Streams that . . . are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud. James Bryce. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]