[syn: juggle, juggling]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Juggle \Jug"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Juggled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Juggling.] [OE. juglen; cf. OF. jogler, jugler, F. jongler.
See Juggler.]
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1. To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and
sport by tricks of skill; to conjure; especially, to
maintian several objects in the air at one time by tossing
them up with one hand, catching them with the other hand,
and passing them from the catching to the tossing hand.
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2. To practice artifice or imposture.
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Be these juggling fiends no more believed. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Juggling \Jug"gling\, a.
Cheating; tricky. -- Jug"gling*ly, adv.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Juggling \Jug"gling\, n. [p. pr. from juggle, v. t.]
1. Jugglery; underhand practice.
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2. The act or process of keeping several objects in the air
at one time by tossing them with the hands. See juggle
v. t., senses 2, 3, and 4.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
juggling
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]