Word Meanings - SHOPSHIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The trick of a shopkeeper; deception. B. Jonson.
Related words: (words related to SHOPSHIFT)
- TRICKISH
Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n. - TRICKERY
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. - TRICKTRACK
An old game resembling backgammon. - TRICKINESS
The quality of being tricky. - TRICKSTER
One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat. - SHOPKEEPER
A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison. - DECEPTION
1. The act of deceiving or misleading. South. 2. The state of being deceived or misled. There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception. South. 3. That which deceives or is intended to - TRICKMENT
Decoration. " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl. - TRICKER
A trigger. Boyle. - TRICKY
Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish. - TRICKSY
Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge. - TRICKLE
To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. Spenser. - TRICKING
Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott. - TRICKSINESS
The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot. - TRICK
The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice - STRICKLE
An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle. - DOGTRICK
A gentle trot, like that of a dog. - MOONSTRICKEN
See MOONSTRUCK - AWE-STRICKEN
Awe-struck. - STRICK
A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight. - STRICKEN
1. Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer. Note: 2. Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21. Abraham was old and well stricken in age. Gen. xxiv. 1. 3. Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock. - ENTRICK
To trick, to perplex. Rom. of R. - HEARTSTRICKEN
Shocked; dismayed.