trickster (trikster)

[ I'll tell you a Story not much unlike yours, not to go off from Lewis, who us'd to take a Pleasure in tricking Tricksters. N. Bailey , tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 434. trickster (trik's ter), v. i. [ trickster , n.] play tricks. [Rare.] To IMG:content-0860.png:[blocks in formation] I continued tricksy and cunning, and was poor without the consolation of being honest. Goldsmith , Vicar, xxvi. 2. Deceptive; fallacious; illusive; illusory. The tricksy thing [idea] comes and goes, my boy, revealing itself in glimpses which are neither clear enough nor prolonged enough to make that kind of impre ion on the memory which is nece ary to fix it. D. C. Murray , Weaker Ve el, ii. 3. Playful; sportive; mischievous. Thou little tricksy Puck! With antic toys so funnily bestuck. anc. pros. and rhet., consisting of three cola. tricolon (trī-kōʻlon), n.; pl. tricola (-lä). [NL., II. n. A flag composed of three colors in large ma es equal or nearly equal, as the national flags of Italy and Mexico; especially, the flag of France adopted during the Revolution, consisting of three equal parts-blue next the mast, red at the fly, and white between, or, in heraldic language, palewise of three pieces, azure, argent, and gules. The red and blue represented the colors of the city of Paris. We talk of. the lilies and tricolor of France. Preble, Hist. Flag, p. 3. Hood , Parental Ode to my Son. tricolored, tricoloured (tri'kul-ord), a. [ tri- 4. Trim; dainty; neat; spruce. Trincato [It.],... spruce, fine, neat, smug, feate, trick- sie -trim. Florio (ed. 1611). Their little minim forms arrayed In the tricksy pomp of fairy pride. J. R. Drake, Culprit Fay.