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Webster 1913 Edition

Juggle

Jug′gle

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Juggled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Juggling
.]
[OE.
juglen
; cf. OF.
jogler
,
jugler
, F.
jongler
. See
Juggler
.]
2.
To practice artifice or imposture.
Be these
juggling
fiends no more believed.
Shakespeare

Jug′gle

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To deceive by trick or artifice.
Is’t possible the spells of France should
juggle

Men into such strange mysteries?
Shakespeare

Jug′gle

,
Noun.
1.
A trick by sleight of hand.
2.
An imposture; a deception.
Tennyson.
A
juggle
of state to cozen the people.
Tillotson.
3.
A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split.
Knight.

Webster 1828 Edition

Juggle

JUG'GLE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. joculor, to jest, from jocus, a joke; jocor, to joke;]
1.
To play tricks by slight of hand; to amuse and make sport by tricks, which make a false show of extraordinary powers.
2.
To practice artifice or imposture.
Be these juggling fiends no more believed.

JUG'GLE

,
Verb.
T.
To deceive by trick or artifice.
Is't possible that spells of France should juggle
Men into such strange mockeries?

JUG'GLE

,
Noun.
A trick by legerdemain.
1.
An imposture; a deception.

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