sleight

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SLEIGHT, noun slite. 1. An artful trick; sly artifice; a trick or feat so dexterously performed that the manner of performance escapes observation; as sleight of hand. 2. Dexterous practice; dexterity.
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