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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
sleight
 
PRONUNCIATION:  slt
NOUN:1. Deftness; dexterity. 2. A clever or skillful trick or deception; an artifice or stratagem.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English, alteration of sleahthe, from Old Norse slœgdh, from slœgr, sly.
 
 
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