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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JUG'GLE, v.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, v.t. To deceive by trick or artifice.
Is't possible that spells of France should juggle
Men into such strange mockeries?
JUG'GLE, n. A trick by legerdemain.
1. An imposture; a deception.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression [syn: juggle, juggling]
2: throwing and catching several objects simultaneously [syn: juggle, juggling] v
1: influence by slyness [syn: juggle, beguile, hoodwink]
2: manipulate by or as if by moving around components; "juggle an account so as to hide a deficit"
3: deal with simultaneously; "She had to juggle her job and her children"
4: throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously
5: hold with difficulty and balance insecurely; "the player juggled the ball"

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (juggled; juggling) Etymology: Middle English jogelen, from Anglo-French jugler, from Latin joculari to jest, joke, from joculus, diminutive of jocus joke Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. to perform the tricks of a juggler 2. to engage in manipulation especially in order to achieve a desired end transitive verb 1. a. to practice deceit or trickery on ; beguile b. to manipulate or rearrange especially in order to achieve a desired end <juggle an account to hide a loss> 2. a. to toss in the manner of a juggler b. to hold or balance precariously 3. to handle or deal with usually several things (as obligations) at one time so as to satisfy often competing requirements <juggle the responsibilities of family life and full-time job — Jane S. Gould> II. noun Date: 1664 an act or instance of juggling: a. a trick of magic b. a show of manual dexterity c. an act of manipulation especially to achieve a desired end

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 a intr. (often foll. by with) perform feats of dexterity, esp. by tossing objects in the air and catching them, keeping several in the air at the same time. b tr. perform such feats with. 2 tr. continue to deal with (several activities) at once, esp. with ingenuity. 3 intr. (foll. by with) & tr. a deceive or cheat. b misrepresent (facts). c rearrange adroitly. --n. 1 a piece of juggling. 2 a fraud. Etymology: ME, back-form. f. JUGGLER or f. OF jogler, jugler f. L joculari jest f. joculus dimin. of jocus jest

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Juggle Jug"gle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Juggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Juggling.] [OE. juglen; cf. OF. jogler, jugler, F. jongler. See Juggler.] 1. To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure. 2. To practice artifice or imposture. Be these juggling fiends no more believed. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Juggle Jug"gle, v. t. To deceive by trick or artifice. Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries? --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Juggle Jug"gle, n. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(juggles, juggling, juggled) 1. If you juggle lots of different things, for example your work and your family, you try to give enough time or attention to all of them. The management team meets several times a week to juggle budgets and resources... Mike juggled the demands of a family of 11 with a career as a TV reporter. VERB: V n, V n with n, also V with n 2. If you juggle, you entertain people by throwing things into the air, catching each one and throwing it up again so that there are several of them in the air at the same time. Soon she was juggling five eggs... I can't juggle. VERB: V n, V • juggling He can perform an astonishing variety of acts, including mime and juggling.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. 1. Conjure, play tricks, practise jugglery, practise legerdemain. 2. Practise artifice, practise imposture, cheat. II. n. 1. Trick, piece of legerdemain. 2. Trick, imposture, imposition, deception, cheat, fraud.

Moby Thesaurus

adulterate, alter, arrange, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cajole, cheat on, circumvent, conjure, cook, delude, diddle, distort, doctor, double-cross, dupe, fake, falsify, fix, forestall, gammon, get around, gull, hoax, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug, let down, load, manipulate, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, mock, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pack, pigeon, plant, play one false, put something over, retouch, rig, salt, snow, sophisticate, stack, string along, take in, tamper with, trick, two-time