Word Meanings - SHARKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices.

Related words: (words related to SHARKING)

• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• SEEK
  Sick. Chaucer.
• RAPINE
  rapina, fr. rapere to seize and carry off by force. See Rapid, and 1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• LIVELIHOOD
  Liveliness; appearance of life. Shak.
• TRICKINESS
  The quality of being tricky.
• TRICKSTER
  One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• TRICKMENT
  Decoration. " No trickments but my tears." Beau. & Fl.
• TRICKER
  A trigger. Boyle.
• SEEKER
  One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments. A skeptic ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. Bullokar. (more info)
• TRICKY
  Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.
• TRICKSY
  Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.
• PETTY
  Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
• TRICKLE
  To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. Spenser.
• TRICKING
  Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
• DISHONESTLY
  In a dishonest manner.
• UPSEEK
  To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
• RESEEK
  To seek again. J. Barlow.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• STRICKLE
  An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
• SELF-SEEKER
  One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.
• DOGTRICK
  A gentle trot, like that of a dog.
• MOONSTRICKEN
  See MOONSTRUCK
• AWE-STRICKEN
  Awe-struck.
• MISSEEK
  To seek for wrongly.