Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
The art of dressing up; imposture.
Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
Deception or underhanded behavior.