Trick
TRICK, noun [Latin tricor, to play tricks, to trifle, to baffle. We see the same root in the Low Latin intrico, to fold, and in intrigue. trick is from drawing, that is, a drawing aside, or a folding, interweaving, implication.]
1. An artifice or stratagem for the purpose of deception; a fraudful contrivance for an evil purpose, or an underhand scheme to impose upon the world; a cheat or cheating. We hear of tricks in bargains, and tricks of state.
He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick
2. A dexterous artifice.
On one nice trick depends the gen'ral fate.
3. Vicious practice; as the tricks of youth.
4. The sly artifice or legerdemain of a juggler; as the tricks of a merry Andrew.
5. A collection of cards laid together.
6. An unexpected event.
Some trick not worth an egg. [Unusual.]
7. A particular habit or manner; as, he has a trick of drumming with his fingers, or a trick of frowning. [This word is in common use in America, and by no means vulgar.]
TRICK, verb transitive To deceive; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
TRICK, verb transitive To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically.
It is often followed by up, off, or out.
People are lavish in tricking up their children in fine clothes, yet starve their minds.