Definition of Sleight of hand

1. Noun. Manual dexterity in the execution of tricks.


Definition of Sleight of hand

1. Noun. The required digital dexterity behind magic tricks and illusions. ¹

2. Noun. A performance of such skill. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleight Of Hand

sleigh
sleigh bed
sleigh bell
sleighbell
sleighbells
sleighed
sleigher
sleighers
sleighest
sleighful
sleighfuls
sleighing
sleighlike
sleighs
sleight
sleight of hand (current term)
sleightful
sleightly
sleights
sleights of hand
sleighty
sleiveen
sleiveens
slender
slender-horned gazelle
slender-horned gazelles
slender-tailed meerkat
slender-waisted
slender centaury
slender fasciculus

Literary usage of Sleight of hand

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Social Life of the Chinese: With Some Account of the Religious, Governmental by Justus Doolittle (1865)
"Jugglers: Description of several Sleight-of-hand Tricks. ... Some of the sleight-of-hand performances are quite inexplicable to those who have not been ..."

2. Social life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Some of the sleight-of-hand performances are quite inexplicable to those who have not been initiated into the secret, and seem impossible of achievement, ..."

3. The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Homer Saint-Gaudens (1913)
"XI BY-ROADS 1882-1889 The Sleight of Hand—The Sunday Concerts—Cornish, New Hampshire—The First Summer—The Improvement of Home—Dewing, Brush and Others—The ..."

4. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"A term given to some deceptive or sleight-of-hand performances, which depend either entirely on dexterity and address, or derive but a small degree of aid ..."

5. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"Mathews played a part in which 1ш parodied certain sleight-of-hand tricks for which Anderson, .... sleightofhand ..."

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