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sleight of hand

3 definitions found for sleight of hand

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :


  Sleight \Sleight\, n. [OE. sleighte, sleihte, sleithe, Icel.
     sl?g? (for sl?g?) slyness, cunning, fr. sl?gr (for sl?gr)
     sly, cunning. See Sly.]
     1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. [Obs.] "His sleight and
        his covin." --Chaucer.
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     2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that
        the manner of performance escapes observation.
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              The world hath many subtle sleights.  --Latimer.
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     3. Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. --Chaucer. "The
        juggler's sleight." --Hudibras.
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     Sleight of hand, legerdemain; prestidigitation.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :


  sleight of hand
      n 1: manual dexterity in the execution of tricks [syn:
           prestidigitation, sleight of hand]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :


  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "sleight of hand":
     Prospero, airiness, appearance, artful dodge, artifice,
     bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, catch, chicanery, chouse,
     conjuration, curve, curve-ball, delusiveness, design, device,
     dirty deal, dirty trick, dodge, escamotage, fallaciousness,
     false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, fast deal,
     feint, fetch, ficelle, gambit, gimmick, googly, hanky-panky,
     hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey, idealization, illusionism, illusionist,
     illusiveness, immateriality, jiggery-pokery, joker, juggle,
     jugglery, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic act, magic show,
     magician, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, pass, ploy,
     prestidigitation, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick, seeming, semblance,
     shift, show, simulacrum, sleight, sleight-of-hand trick, sorcerer,
     sorcery, specious appearance, stratagem, subterfuge, trick,
     trickery, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, wile