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sleight

  [slahyt]
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–noun
1. skill; dexterity.
2. an artifice; stratagem.
3. cunning; craft.
Origin:
1225–75; ME; early ME slēgth < ON slǣgth. See sly, -th 1
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sleight   (slīt)   
n.  

  1. Deftness; dexterity.

  2. A clever or skillful trick or deception; an artifice or stratagem.


[Middle English, alteration of sleahthe, from Old Norse slɶgdh, from slɶgr, sly.]
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