To deceive by trickery; cozen; cheat.To bring, render, or induce by trickery; beguile; inveigle; cajole.To use trickery, deception, or imposture.To juggle; play.To toy; handle idly.n. A crafty or fraudulent device; a deceitful expedient; an artifice; a stratagem.n. A feat or an exhibition of skill or dexterity, as in juggling or sleight of hand.n. A roguish or mischievous performance; a prank; a practical joke; a hoax.n. A foolish, vicious, or disgraceful act: with disparaging or contemptuous force.n. A peculiar art; skill; adroitness; knack.n. A peculiar trait, manner, habit, or practice; a characteristic; a peculiarity; a mannerism.n. A trace; a suggestion; a reminder.n. Something pretended or unreal; a semblance; an illusion.n. Any small article; a toy; a knickknack; a trifle; a trap; a mere nothing: sometimes applied to a child.n. In card-playing, the cards collectively which are played in one round.n. Nautical, a spell: a turn; the time allotted to a man to stand at the helm, generally two hours.n. A watch. Tuft's Glossary of Thieves' Jargon (1798).n. Synonyms Manœuver, Stratagem, etc. (see artifice), fraud, imposition, imposture, deception, fetch.To dress; trim; deck; prank; specifically, to arrange, dress, or decorate, especially in a fanciful way, as the person or the hair: often followed by out or up.In heraldry: To draw, as a bearing or a collection of bearings, or a whole escutcheon or achievement of arms.Especially, to draw in black and white only, without color, or to sketch slightly, whether a bearing or a whole achievement.n. An obsolete form of trig.