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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Juggler \Jug"gler\, noun [OE. jogelour, juglur, OF. jogleor, jugleor, 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. {Jongleur}, {Joculator}.]
1. One who juggles; one who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. [Archaic]
Note: This sense is now expressed by {magician} or {conjurer}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. --Shak.
Jugglers and impostors do daily delude them. --Sir T. Browne.
2. A deceiver; a cheat. --Shak.
3. A person who juggles objects, i. e. who maintains several objects in the air by passing them in turn from one hand to another. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conjurer \Con*jur"er\, noun One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conjurer \Con"jur*er\, noun
1. One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand.
Dealing with witches and with conjurers. --Shak.
From the account the loser brings, The conjurer knows who stole the things. --Prior.
2. One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity. [Obs.] --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
conjurer
noun
1: someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: {magician}, {prestidigitator}, {conjuror}, {illusionist}]
2: a witch doctor who practices conjury [syn: {conjuror}, {conjure man}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "conjurer": Comus, Faust, artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, diabolist, diviner, dowser, ecdysiast, enchanter, entertainer, escamoteur, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, hoofer, illusionist, impersonator, juggler, mage, magian, magician, magus, miracle-worker, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, necromancer, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, show girl, singer, sleight-of-hand performer, sorcerer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, tricker, trickster, vaudevillian, vaudevillist, voodooist, warlock, water witch, wizard
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