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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that performs magic tricks; a magician.
  • noun A sorcerer or sorceress.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun . One bound by a solemn oath; a conjurator; a conspirator.
  • noun One who solemnly enjoins or conjures.
  • noun An enchanter; one who practises magic or uses secret charms; a magician.
  • noun Hence One who practises legerdemain; a juggler.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand.
  • noun obsolete One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
  • noun One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who conjures, a magician.
  • noun One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
  • noun obsolete One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
  • noun a witch doctor who practices conjury

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to conjure + -er.

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