Feint /(?)/
Feint
a.
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Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.]
Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
Feint
n.
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That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
- A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
Feint
v. i.
- To make a feint, or mock attack.