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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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26 words match “JUGGLE”

JUGGLE v. 6 definitions

To deceive by trick or artifice. Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries Shak.

JUGGLER n. 2 definitions

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.

A female juggler. T. Warton.

JUGGLERY n. 2 definitions

The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand.

To surpass in juggling.

CANKER BLOSSOM n.

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [Obs.] O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.

CIRCULATORIOUS a.

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

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

One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. [Obs.] Shak.

seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2 Tim. iii. 13. Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. What can 'scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Milton.

A juggler's trick; conjuring. [Obs.] The devil is the author of wicked figgum. B. Jonson.

y the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. -- Fire eater. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] -- Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. -- Fire escape, a contrivance f…

HANKEY-PANKEY n.

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

HICCIUS DOCTIUS n.

A juggler. [Cant] hocus pocus Hudibras.

HOCUSPOCUS; HOCUS-POCUS n. 3 definitions

A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.

JONGLEUR; JONGLER n.

A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler. Milton.

Jugglery; underhand practice.

One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon. Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers. Milton.

To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle. They palmed the trick that lost the game. Prior.

racter. [Archaic] His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. Bacon. No man can long put on a person and act a part. Jer. Taylor. To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. Milton. How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the pers…