intransitive. To scheme, plot, connive. Also transitive, with clause as object. Obsolete.

Said of a single person (the notion of combination being lost sight of): To plot secretly, contrive. Obsolete.

absol. or intransitive. Obsolete.

intransitive. To plot; to contrive. With against. Obsolete.

intransitive. To make use of contrivance or ingenuity; to form devices; to plot, conspire. Obsolete.

transitive. With that-clause or infinitive: to resolve, determine. Also: to contrive or plot (esp. the death or downfall of a person); (occasionally…

Occasional uses. intransitive. To think or plan something wrong; to conspire.

intransitive. To form designs or plot against. Obsolete.

intransitive. To scheme, to make plans, to employ stratagem or trickery, usually for an evil purpose; to plot, conspire with or against a person; to…

intransitive. To enter into a private arrangement; to participate in a plot; to scheme, conspire. Obsolete.

Esp. Scottish. intransitive. To engage in plots or intrigues; to solicit or canvass, esp. for election, in an underhand way.

intransitive. To plot; to intrigue or scheme (usually with hostile or malicious intent).

intransitive. To conduct affairs; to plot, scheme, or intrigue. Obsolete.

intransitive. To form a plan or plot, esp. for a crime or conspiracy; to scheme, lay plans, contrive, conspire, esp. in secret. Also transitive with…

intransitive. To work or busy oneself for some end; to machinate, scheme, plot. Const. in some practice, for something, to do something.

intransitive. To act factiously or rebelliously; to conspire, intrigue; to mutiny; (also) to join or form a faction. Also †transitive with it.

intransitive. To have a private understanding with; to intrigue, collude, conspire. Now dialect (apparently so, even in Johnson's time, as he does…

intransitive. To carry on underhand plotting or scheming; to employ secret influence for the accomplishment of designs; to make an intrigue.

Hence, A plan of action devised in order to attain some end; a purpose together with a system of measures contrived for its accomplishment; a…

intransitive. To lay schemes; to use ingenuity, resort to contrivance; to devise plans, esp. underhand or with sinister motive.

figurative. intransitive. To seek by contrivance to do something; to scheme.

intransitive. To engage in scheming or shrewd bargaining, esp. of a political or commercial nature. Cf. wheeler-dealer, n.