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Tricking

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trick \Trick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tricked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Tricking}.]
   1. To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to
      defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a
      horse.

   2. To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically;
      -- often followed by up, off, or out. `` Trick her off in
      air.'' --Pope.

            People lavish it profusely in tricking up their
            children in fine clothes, and yet starve their
            minds.                                --Locke.

            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.

   3. To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or
      distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.

            They forget that they are in the statutes: . . .
            there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees.
                                                  --B. Jonson.

Tricking \Trick"ing\, a.
   Given to tricks; tricky. --Sir W. Scott.

Tricking \Trick"ing\, n.
   Dress; ornament. --Shak.
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