feint

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A feigned attack designed to draw defensive action away from an intended target.
2. n. A deceptive action calculated to divert attention from one's real purpose. See Synonyms at wile.
3. v. To make a feint.
4. v. To deceive with a feint.
5. v. To make a deceptive show of.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An assumed or false appearance, or simulation; a pretense of doing something not really done.
2. n. A movement made with the object of deceiving an adversary or throwing him off his guard; an appearance of aiming at one part or point when another is the real object of attack, as in boxing, fencing, battle, or a contest of any kind; a mock attack.
3. Counterfeit; seeming; feigned: same as faint, 1.
4. Same as faint, 2.
5. To make a feint; make a pretended blow, thrust, or attack at one point when another is intended to be struck, in order to throw an antagonist off his guard.
6. n. plural See faint, n., 2.

Wiktionary

1. v. To make a feint, or mock attack.
2. adj. obsolete Feigned; counterfeit.
3. adj. fencing, boxing, war (of an attack) directed toward a different part from the intended strike
4. n. A movement made to confuse the opponent, a dummy
5. n. That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
6. n. fencing, boxing, war An offensive movement resembling an attack in all but its continuance
7. n. The narrowest rule used in the production of lined writing paper (C19: Variant of FAINT)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. obsolete Feigned; counterfeit.
2. n. That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
3. n. A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
4. v. To make a feint, or mock attack.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)
2. v. deceive by a mock action