intransitive. To say what is untrue, to jest in order to cheat, mock, amuse, or make sport. Obsolete.

intransitive and transitive with it. To use sleight of hand, trickery, or deception. Cf. legerdemain, n. 1a 2. Obsolete.

intransitive to practise on (also upon) —. To play a trick on; to manipulate, esp. through trickery or deceit. Now literary.

to play hocus-pocus, to play the juggler, to juggle. Obsolete.

intransitive. To play a trick upon; to cheat. Obsolete.

absol. or intransitive. To practise trickery, to cheat.

(See quot. 1755.)

transitive. To hoax, humbug, try to make (one) believe what is not true. Also, to joke with, tease. Also intransitive or absol., and const. along or…

intransitive. To play tricks, frolic; to ride in a frolicsome manner; to ride across country. Also with about.

intransitive. To play a trick or practical joke; to joke. Also figurative and in extended use.

intransitive. To fool about, mess around; to play tricks.

intransitive. To joke, kid, tease; to engage in playful deception.