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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Legerdemain; jugglery; deception.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Trickery; also, a trick.

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  • noun obsolete trickery; a trick

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  • juggling; deception, trickery.

    Ther saugh I Colle tregetour

    Upon a table of sicamour

    Pleye an uncouthe thing to telle;

    I saugh him carien a wind-melle (carry a windmill)

    Under a walsh-note shale. (walnut shell)

    – Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame

    December 8, 2008

  • Bet Chaucer would be impressed with qms limericks.

    January 25, 2016

  • Thank you kindly, bilby:

    As compliments go that's a dilly,

    But I versify willy-nilly.

    Old Geoffrey could rhyme

    On matters sublime

    While I merely strive for the silly.

    January 26, 2016