Word of the day! 10-10-08

Today's Word
legerdemain \lej-ur-duh-MAIN\, noun:1. Sleight of hand.2. A display of skill, trickery, or artful deception.

"We are inclined to regard the treatment of [paradoxes] . . . as a mere legerdemain of words.-- Benjamin Jowett, Dialogues of Plato

"Their alleged legerdemain at the blackjack table and roulette wheel of the luxurious Salle Anglaise was caught on closed-circuit television.-- "Double dealing puts Monte Carlo in a spin", Daily Telegraph, February 23, 1997

"There is a certain knack or legerdemain in argument.-- Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times

Legerdemain is from Old French leger de main, literally "light of hand": leger, "light" + de, "of" + main, "hand."