[f. TRICK v. + -ING1.] The action of TRICK v.
1. The action of cheating, deceiving, or beguiling; trickery, deceit; in quot. 1662, † the sophistication of wine (obs.).
1595. Enquiry Tripe-wife (1881), 145. Your valorous assaults against The Tricking of the Tripe-wife.
1662. Charleton, Myst. Vintners (1675), 203. The Transmutation or Sophistication of Wines, which they call Trickings or Compassings.
1799. W. Gilpin, Serm., I. ix. [The world] will shew you, that tricking, and deceit of various kinds, are very consistent with christianity.
1810. W. Wilson, Hist. Dissent. Ch., III. 46. The disingenuous arts of craft and tricking.
2. Dressing up, decking out, ornamentation (in quot. 1598 concr.).
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Eph., Prol. C ij. Men fynely broughte vp in trickynge of termes and tounges.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., IV. iv. 79. Go get vs properties And tricking for our Fayries.
1695. Bp. J. Sage, Article, Wks. 1844, I. 371. So much needless ostentation, so much odd external tricking about it.
3. Sketching or drawing in outline; spec. Her. the delineation of armorial bearings in black and white; see TRICK v. 7.
1562. Leigh, Armorie, ad fin. The olde order in trickyng of all maner of Armes, is to vse one letter for one word. O. Or. Yelowe [etc.].
1864. Lond. & Middlesex Archæol. Soc. Trans., II. 58. The authority for this engraving is a tricking in a volume at the College of Arms.
