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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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