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Sleight

//slaɪt// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Cunning; craft; artful practice. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    adroitness in using the hands wordnet
  3. 3
    An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. countable

    "If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers?"

  4. 4
    Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English sleighte, sleyght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō, from *slōgiz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of sly and slöjd/sloyd.

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