1. (v. i.) To use ambiguous or evasive answers; to equivocate\; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.

2. (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

3. (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

4. (v. t.) To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.

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