Feint

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Feigned; counterfeit.

II. Feint ·vi To make a feint, or mock attack.

III. Feint ·adj That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.

IV. Feint ·adj 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.

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