Apt to catch or take one in; fitted to ensnare or perplex in argument; designed to entrap or entangle by subtlety; fallacious, sophistical.

subtle dealing, dodging, cavilling, trickery; holding off, hesitation, demur. Also attributive in hafting point, hafting question. Obsolete.

Disposed to cavil or quibble. Obsolete.

Full of cavils or cavilling; (of persons) apt to cavil.

That cavils, captious; also, fraudulent, sophistical (obsolete).

Perhaps: = cavilling, adj.

Of the nature of cavil, cavilling.

Of the nature of cavilling.