Word Meanings - ENTRICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To trick, to perplex. Rom. of R.
Related words: (words related to ENTRICK)
- TRICKISH
Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n. - TRICKERY
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. - PERPLEX
1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our - TRICKTRACK
An old game resembling backgammon. - TRICKINESS
The quality of being tricky. - TRICKSTER
One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat. - PERPLEXLY
Perplexedly. Milton. - TRICKMENT
Decoration. " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl. - TRICKER
A trigger. Boyle. - PERPLEXED
Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled; doubtful; anxious. -- Per*plex"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*plex"ed*ness, n. - 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. - PERPLEXIVENESS
The quality of being perplexing; tendency to perplex. Dr. H. More. - PERPLEXING
Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome. "Perplexing thoughts." Milton. - TRICKLE
To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. Spenser. - TRICKING
Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott. - TRICKSINESS
The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot. - PERPLEXITY
The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton. - TRICK
The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice - UNPERPLEX
To free from perplexity. Donne. - STRICKLE
An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle. - DOGTRICK
A gentle trot, like that of a dog. - MOONSTRICKEN
See MOONSTRUCK - AWE-STRICKEN
Awe-struck. - STRICK
A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight. - STRICKEN
1. Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer. Note: 2. Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21. Abraham was old and well stricken in age. Gen. xxiv. 1. 3. Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock. - ENTRICK
To trick, to perplex. Rom. of R.