- (n.) To use shifts, cavils or artifices.
- (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
- (n.) In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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