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brain
trick
(
plural
brain tricks
)
(
obsolete
)
A
stratagem
, a clever trick; a
ruse
.
1613
,
John Marston
, William Barksted,
The Insatiate Countess
, III.4:
But do I not know these are but
brain-tricks
?
A
delusion
; a trick of the brain.
A
puzzle
designed to exercise the brain.