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bitanikai

Bingham

bitæ/nikai

vi. to hide away when about to be asked to work.
n. a hiding away when about to be asked to work.

Sabatier

bitanikai

v. to trick, to dodge, to pretend, to equivocate, to get an alibi, change the subject of conversation so as to get out of something, or to save face.
vt. bitanikaia, bita te kai: to change procedure,... place, to elude by stratagem, to invert the matrix.