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21 words match “JUGGLER”

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.

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.

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.

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…

PRESTIDIGITATOR n.

One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.

PRESTIGIATOR n.

A juggler; prestidigitator. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. Chaucer. "The juggler's sleight." Hudibras. Sleight of hand, legerdemain; prestidigitation.

A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery. [Obs.] Divers appearances Such as these subtle tregetours play. Chaucer.