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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trick \Trick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tricked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Tricking}.]
     1. To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to
        defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a
        horse.
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     2. To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically;
        -- often followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in
        air." --Pope.
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              People lavish it profusely in tricking up their
              children in fine clothes, and yet starve their
              minds.                                --Locke.
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              They are simple, but majestic, records of the
              feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the
              public eye as his diary would have been. --Macaulay.
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     3. To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or
        distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.
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              They forget that they are in the statutes: . . .
              there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees.
                                                    --B. Jonson.
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