Word Meanings - TRICKISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• KNAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being knavish; knavery; dishonesty.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• ARTFULNESS
  The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• TRICKINESS
  The quality of being tricky.
• TRICKSTER
  One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
• ARTFUL
  1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton. 2. Artificial; imitative. Addison. 3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He too artful a writer to set down
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• KNAVISH
  1. Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. "Knavish politicians." Macaulay. 2. Mischievous; roguish; waggish. Cupid is knavish lad, Thus to make
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• CHEATABLENESS
  Capability of being cheated.
• KNAVISHLY
  1. In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently. Holland. 2. Mischievously; waggishly; roguishly. "Knavishly witty." Gayton.
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• 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
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• 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
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• 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.
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
• TRICKING
  Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.