/faynt/ , n.
1. a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
2. a feigned or assumed appearance: His air of approval was a feint to conceal his real motives.
v.i.
3. to make a feint.
v.t.
4. to make a feint at; deceive with a feint.
5. to make a false show of; simulate.
[ 1275-1325; ME feinte, n. use of fem. of feint pretended, ptp. of feindre to FEIGN ]