Word Meanings - PRESTIDIGITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.

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• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• JUGGLERESS
  1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
• JUGGLE
  Etym: 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.
• LEGERDEMAINIST
  One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.
• SLEIGHTFUL
  Cunning; dexterous.
• LEGERDEMAIN
  Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South.
• JUGGLING
  Cheating; tricky. -- Jug"gling*ly, adv.
• JUGGLER
  jongleor, F. jongleur, fr. L. joculator a jester, joker, fr. joculus a little jest or joke, dim. of jocus jest, joke. See Joke, and cf. 1. One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. As nimble
• JUGGLERY
  1. The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand. 2. Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery.
• OUTJUGGLE
  To surpass in juggling.