Intrigue

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi Intricacy; complication.

II. Intrigue ·vi To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.

III. Intrigue ·vi The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.

IV. Intrigue ·vi To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

V. Intrigue ·vi A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.

VI. Intrigue ·vi A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

VII. Intrigue ·vt To fill with artifice and duplicity; to Complicate; to Embarrass.