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Answer for the clue "Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience ", 8 letters:
conjuror

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Word definitions for conjuror in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conjuror \Con*ju"ror\, n. (Law) One bound by a common oath with others. [Obs.]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of conjurer English) 2 (context legal obsolete English) One bound by a common oath with others.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: magician , prestidigitator , conjurer , illusionist ] a witch doctor who practices conjury [syn: conjurer , conjure man ]

Usage examples of conjuror.

Bucket lost no time in transferring this paper, with the dexterity of a conjuror, from Mr. Smallweed to Mr.

I had really seen the conjuror - the gentleman who spoke broken English was Signor Brunoni himself.

Mr Denon in just such a dress as that in which the conjuror had made his appearance, showing clearly that the French, as well as the Turks, wore turbans.

Although her father is a conjuror, she looks as if she had never had a good game of play in her life.

Thomas to help him - as his man, you know, not as another conjuror, though Thomas has set it up now on his own hook.

Mingo conjuror, perhaps, has just put into my head to fancy in dreams that Mabel is lost to me by some unaccountable calamity -- either by changefulness or by violence.

Turk, Mrs Forrester had seen a print of Madame de Staël with a turban on, and another of Mr Denon in just such a dress as that in which the conjuror had made his appearance, showing clearly that the French, as well as the Turks, wore turbans.

Or had their interviews been confined to the occasional meetings in the chamber of the poor sick conjuror, to whom, with all our sense of the mésalliance, we could not help allowing that they had both been exceedingly kind?

I bribed her here by asking her to let me have her name as patroness for my poor conjuror this evening.

And Tom said if that guard had seen him scraping Mrs Frizzell's bits and pieces onto biscuits he would know that conjurors was exactly what they were.

Most conjurors who summon demons are opening a path to Gamelonthough they probably don't know it, not by its true name, anyway.

The bitterest moments I've ever known were them in which the devil, or some Mingo conjuror, perhaps, has just put into my head to fancy in dreams that Mabel is lost to me by some unaccountable calamity -- either by changefulness or by violence.

Creator, slayer, conjuror, Solon-Mars, The cataract of the abyss, the star of stars.

One need not be a conjuror, to divine it is no extract from the Bible.

And to play the part of the great conjuror the film-makers and the British Broadcasting Corporation had engaged, at a substantial fee, the greatest of living conjurors, my old friend Magnus Eisengrim.