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▪ I. tricking, vbl. n.|ˈtrɪkɪŋ|
[f. trick v. + -ing1.]
The action of trick v.
1. The action of cheating, deceiving, or beguiling; trickery, deceit; in quot. 1662, † the sophistication of wine (obs.).
1595Enquiry Tripe-wife (1881) 145 Your valorous assaults against The Tricking of the Tripe-wife. 1662Charleton Myst. Vintners (1675) 203 The Transmutation or Sophistication of Wines, which they call Trickings or Compassings. 1799W. Gilpin Serm. I. ix, [The world] will shew you, that tricking, and deceit of various kinds, are very consistent with christianity. 1810W. Wilson Hist. Dissent. Ch. III. 46 The disingenuous arts of craft and tricking.
2. Dressing up, decking out, ornamentation (in quot. 1598 concr.).
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Eph. Prol. {blC}ij, Men fynely broughte vp in trickynge of termes and tounges. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. iv. 79 Go get vs properties And tricking for our Fayries. 1695J. Sage Article Wks. 1844 I. 371 So much needless ostentation, so much odd external tricking about it.
3. Sketching or drawing in outline; spec. Her. the delineation of armorial bearings in black and white: see trick v. 7.
1562Leigh Armorie ad fin., The olde order in trickyng of all maner of Armes, is to vse one letter for one word. O. Or. Yelowe [etc.]. 1864Lond. & Middlesex Archæol. Soc. Trans. II. 58 The authority for this engraving is a tricking in a volume at the College of Arms.
▪ II. ˈtricking, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That tricks; cheating, deceiving; using trickery.
1697Dryden Virgil, Life (1721) I. 71 The Craft and Tricking part of Life, with which Homer abounds. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 302 The degenerate fondness for tricking short-cuts, and little fallacious facilities. 1815Scott Guy M. xlvii, All the world knows him to be sordid, mean, tricking, and I suspect him to be worse.
Hence ˈtrickingly adv., so as to cheat, artfully.
1833Fraser's Mag. VII. 244 The small portion of notice which you condescend to bestow on Mr. Lytton Bulwer in the Magazine of this month, so trickingly put to the well-known ritornella of ‘Whiston and Ditton’. |