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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 266 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRICK , a crafty or fraudulent See also:

device, deceitful artifice or stratagem, hence an See also:exhibition of skill, especially in sleight of See also:hand or jugglery, the See also:term being also used of a See also:peculiar trait or manner of speech, See also:character or See also:physical See also:habit. A specific use is that for the See also:cards played at a single See also:round, which are taken up and See also:count towards the winning of the See also:game. The origin of the word is ultimately to be found in See also:Lat. tricae, trifles, hindrances, See also:wiles, whence tricari, to delay, shuffle, See also:play tricks, which has also given " intricate," " extricate," " intrigue." The M. Eng. trichen, to cheat or trick, was adapted from the O. Fr. trickier, trechier, whence came trecherie, Eng. " treachery," a betrayal of faith, perfidy or trickery of the grossest See also:kind. There has been also a confusion, which has influenced the meaning and See also:form of " trick," with the Dutch trekken, to pull, draw, cf. the See also:South See also:African Dutch trek, a See also:journey, See also:migration, properly the See also:action of See also:drawing a vehicle or travelling by ox-See also:wagon. " Trick " or " tricking " is thus used, in See also:heraldry, as the technical term for the drawing of a coat of arms in monochrome, giving the tinctures by the conventions of See also:vertical, See also:horizontal or See also:diagonal lines, &c.

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