شَعْوَذَةٌ

Legerdemain, or sleight-of-hand, (A, L, K,) and false miracles, (TA,) and fascinations, (K,) or fascination, (A, L,) or a kind of play, (Msb,) like سِحْر, (A, L, Msb, K,) making a thing to appear different from what it really is, (L, K,) or showing a man what has no real existence: (Msb:) or making what is false to assume the form of what is true: (TA:) as also شَعْبَذَةٌ: (A, Msb:) vulgarly termed شَعْبَثَةٌ. (TA.)

Also Quickness: or lightness, or agility, in any affair. (L.)

It is not a word of the language of the people of the desert. (Lth, L, Msb.)