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Juggle   /dʒˈəgəl/   Listen
verb
Juggle  v. t.  
1.
To deceive by trick or artifice. "Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries?"
2.
To maintain (several objects) in continuous motion 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; variations on this basic motion are also used. Also used figuratively: see senses 3 and 4.
3.
To alter (financial records) secretly for the purpose of theft or deception; as, to juggle the accounts. (Colloq.)
4.
To arrange the performance two tasks or responsibilities at alternate times, so as to be able to do both; as, to juggle the responsibilities of a job and a mother



Juggle  v. i.  (past & past part. juggled; pres. part. juggling)  
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.
2.
To practice artifice or imposture. "Be these juggling fiends no more believed."



noun
Juggle  n.  
1.
A trick by sleight of hand.
2.
An imposture; a deception. "A juggle of state to cozen the people."
3.
A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split.






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"Juggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... cherry, cream, And strawberry do stir More love, when they transfer A weak, a soft, a broken beam; Than if they should discover At full their proper excellence, Without some scene cast over, To juggle with the sense. ...
— A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick • Robert Herrick

... search-light. Worst of it was, I could feel myself grinnin' back at her just as mushy. I was gettin' sillier every breath, and I might have got as far as blowin' kisses at her if I hadn't pulled myself together and begun to juggle the Indian clubs, for the ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... we had heard of the cold-blooded cruelty, the slow and exquisite torture, the final deathblow; there was no informality in these; the man had not denied his guilt, his defender did not seek to palliate it. Away with the juggle, it cannot avail you here! But in spite of my feverish security, the shrewd lawyer—well might he smile and chuckle at his skill—proceeded calmly to assert the prisoner's right to his immediate discharge! There was a flaw in the declaration, and the indictment was invalid. And ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various

... pleasantries with one's dearest enemy and still smile. In the old life, under similar circumstances, there would have been gun-play, and probably later a funeral; but here—they knew better how to live. Already, in the few social events she had attended, she had seen them juggle with emotions as a conjurer with knives—to emerge unhurt, unruffled. To be sure, she could not herself do it—yet; but she ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... Trial by Battle for the decision of differences between nations, there would be peaceful substitutes, as Arbitration, or, it may be, a Congress of Nations, and the United States of Europe would appear above the subsiding waters. The old juggle of Balance of Power, which has rested like a nightmare on Europe, would disappear, like that other less bloody fiction of Balance of Trade, and nations, like individuals, would all be equal before the law. Here our own country furnishes an illustration. So long as slavery prevailed among ...
— The Duel Between France and Germany • Charles Sumner


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