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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   2. To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically;
      -- often followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in
      air." --Pope.
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            People lavish it profusely in tricking up their
            children in fine clothes, and yet starve their
            minds.                                --Locke.
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            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.
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   3. To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or
      distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
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            They forget that they are in the statutes: . . .
            there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees.
                                                  --B. Jonson.
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