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n.
Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
n.
To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
n.
A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.
n.
A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.
a.
To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.
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.
One who uses chicanery.
n.
See Chica.
v. t.
To fetter; to shackle; to chain. H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 153, 179, 181-3, 237-8.
n.
A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.
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