to form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.-to carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.-to fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.-intricacy; complication.-a complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.-the plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.-a secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.