brain trick

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English

Noun

brain trick (plural brain tricks)

  1. (obsolete) A stratagem, a clever trick; a ruse.
    • 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.4:
      But do I not know these are but brain-tricks?
  2. A delusion; a trick of the brain.
  3. A puzzle designed to exercise the brain.