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单词 sleight
释义 sleight
I. \ˈslīt, usu -īd.+V\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English sleght, sleight, from Old Norse slœgth, from slœgr sly, crafty — more at sly
1.
 a. : deceitful craftiness : cunning, trickery
  < every interest did by right, or might, or sleight, get represented — R.W.Emerson >
 b.
  (1) : mental or manual skill in making or performing : dexterity, deftness
   < a new sleight in the reading of poetry — R.P.Blackmur >
  (2) : skill in a particular task : knack
  (3) archaic : sleight of hand 1
  (4) : mental or physical quickness or agility : nimbleness
   < brilliant intuitions … and speculative hypotheses derived by sleight of mind from a fairly small number of works of the imagination — R.G.Davis >
2.
 a. : a sly artifice : stratagem, trick, shift
  < watching closely to discover by what mental artful sleight he would accomplish the miracle — Archibald Rutledge >
  < a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder — Lafcadio Hearn >
 specifically : sleight of hand 2
 b. obsolete : a skillfully executed pattern
II.
obsolete
variant of slight
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