jugglers

Noun

juggler (plural jugglers)

1. A person who practices juggling (trick of throwing and catching balls or similar).
   • Coming forward and seating himself on the ground in his white dress and tightened turban, the chief of the Indian Jugglers begins with tossing up two brass balls, which is what any of us could do, and concludes with keeping up four at the same time, which is what none of us could do to save our...1821, William Hazlitt, “Essay IX”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume I, London: John Warren, […], →OCLC, page 181
2. (obsolete) A person who performs tricks using sleight of hand, a conjurer, prestidigitator.
   • 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: […]c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (dated) A magician or wizard.
   • So far we may follow the 'clerk,' but he subsequently shows himself to be a juggler, and not a worker by regular natural science.1841, Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard H. Horne, The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, page 320