| chicane | (ชิเคน') n. การหลอก, เพทุบาย, การไม่มีไพ่สำคัญในมือ (เกมไพ่บริดจฺ์) , เล่ห์. -v.ใช้เล่ห์หลอก, See also: chicaner n., Syn. deception | chicanery | (ชิเค'นะรี) n. เพทุบาย, เล่ห์, เล่ห์กล, การใช่เล่ห์หลอก, Syn. deception |
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| | chicane | (n) a bridge hand that is void of trumps | chicane | (n) a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file | cavil | (v) raise trivial objections, Syn. chicane, carp | cheat | (v) defeat someone through trickery or deceit, Syn. screw, chicane, chouse, jockey, shaft | trickery | (n) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them), Syn. guile, wile, chicane, chicanery, shenanigan |
| Chicane | n. [ F., prob. earlier meaning a dispute, orig. in the game of mall (F. mail), fr. LGr. &unr_; the game of mall, fr Pers chaugān club or bat; or possibly ultimated fr. L. ciccus a trible. ] 1. 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. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ] To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ] To cut short this chicane, I propound it fairly to your own conscience. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Card playing) In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] | Chicane | v. i. [ Cf. F. chicaner. See Chicane, n. ] To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ] | Chicaner | n. [ Cf. F. chicaneur. ] One who uses chicanery. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ] | Chicanery | n. [ F. chicanerie. ] Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. [ 1913 Webster ] Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam. Syn. -- Trickery; sophistry; stratagem. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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