Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRI'FLE, v.i.

1. To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight or dignity; to act or talk with levity. They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us. Hooker.
2. To indulge in light amusements. Law. To trifle with, to mock; to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness. To trifle with, or To trifle away, to spend in vanity; to waste to no good purpose; as, to trifle with time, or to trifle away time; to trifle with advantages.