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.

Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.

To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.

To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.

To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.