·noun To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
II. Chicane ·add. ·noun In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.
III. Chicane ·noun 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.