(1):
(n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; - specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
(2):
(n.) In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.
(3):
(n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.