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tricked |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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
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