Machination :: Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.
Machinator :: Machinator (n.) One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer..
Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to
Machine :: Machine (n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle..
Machine :: Machine (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
Machine :: Machine (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine..
Machine :: Machine (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends..
Machine :: Machine (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit..
Machine :: Machine (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
Machiner :: Machiner (n.) One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
Machinery :: Machinery (n.) Machines, in general, or collectively..
Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch..
Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected..
Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.