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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Feint \Feint\, v. i.
To make a feint, or mock attack.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Feint \Feint\, a. [F. feint, p. p. of feindre to feign. See
{Feign}.]
Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.]
Dressed up into any feint appearance of it --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Feint \Feint\, n. [F. feinte, fr feint. See {Feint}, a.]
1. That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a
pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off
--Spectator.
2. A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is
intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in
fencing, boxing, war, etc
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
feint
n : any distracting maneuver (as a mock attack)
v : make a feint
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