juggler

1. (obsolete) A person who performs tricks using sleight of hand, a conjurer, prestidigitator.Examples: "They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: / Darke vvorking Sorcerers that change the minde: / Soule-killing VVitches, that deforme the bodie: […]"; "[…] Along with them / They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, / A mere anatomy, a mountebank, / A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller, / A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, / A dead-looking man: this pernicious slave, / Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer […]"; "And such captious ſubtleties do indeed often puzzle and ſometimes ſilence men, but rarely ſatisfy them. Being like the tricks of Jugglers, vvhereby men doubt not but they are cheated, though oftentimes they cannot declare by vvhat ſlights they are impoſed on."obsolete

2. (dated) A magician or wizard.Examples: "So far we may follow the 'clerk,' but he subsequently shows himself to be a juggler, and not a worker by regular natural science."; "The contents of the Sūtra is a legend of a juggler Bhadra. Bhadra, due to his magical tricks, intended to deceive the Buddha and invited him to a magic feast which was charmed into being on a refuse dump."; "This time he accidentally takes a juggler's magic ball and embarks on a successful career as a street entertainer. Every time he throws the red ball into the air, the ball multiplies, and magical scenes appear on them."dated