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nded to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. Busy meddlers with intrigues of state. Pomfret.

One who intrigues.

Arts or practice of intrigue.

ly. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]

To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise. The hearts of all that he did angle for. Shak.

Acting from behind and in concealment; as backdoor intrigues.

A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.

The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.

With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.

nal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.

One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.

To intrigue. [Obs.] Daniel.

A female intriguer.

By means of, or in the manner of, intrigue.

Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer. Jesuits' bark, Peruvian bark, or the bark of certain species of Cinchona; -- so called because its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America. -- Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar. -- Jesuits' nut, the European water…

private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.

il to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians. The puzzling sons of party next appeared, In dark cabals and mighty juntos met. Thomson.