(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.