Word Meanings - TRICKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.

TRICKSTER
One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
SCOTTICIZE
To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
GIVEN
p. p. & a. from Give, v.
SCOTTISH
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
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.
SCOTTISH TERRIER
See TERRIER
SCOTTERING
The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
TRICKSINESS
The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.
SCOTTICISM
An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
FORGIVENESS
1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
MASCOT; MASCOTTE
A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.