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, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand. Dealing with witches and with conjurers. Shak. From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. Prior.

The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.

To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm. She conjures; away with her. Shak.

A conjurer who can raise spirits. [R.] Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My mortified spirit. Shak.

Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery. [Colloq.]

One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them. Sir T. Browne.

one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

A priest, or conjurer, among the North American Indians. Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow. Longfellow.

A conjurer; a diviner.

A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician. Bacon. Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. Ex. vii. 11.

A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc. Picus bore a buckler in his hand; His other waved a long divining wand. Dryden. Wand of peace (Scots Law), a wand, or staff, carried by the messenger of a court, which he breaks when deforced (that is, hindered from executing process), as a symbol of the deforcement, a…

One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter. The wily wizard must be caught. Dryden.