Word Meanings - SHOPSHIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The trick of a shopkeeper; deception. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to SHOPSHIFT)

• 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.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• TRICKINESS
  The quality of being tricky.
• TRICKSTER
  One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
• SHOPKEEPER
  A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.
• DECEPTION
  1. The act of deceiving or misleading. South. 2. The state of being deceived or misled. There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception. South. 3. That which deceives or is intended to
• TRICKMENT
  Decoration. " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl.
• TRICKER
  A trigger. Boyle.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• HEARTSTRICKEN
  Shocked; dismayed.