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Instrument :: Instrument (n.) A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument..

Gimmor :: Gimmor (n.) A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.

Ingenuity :: Ingenuity (n.) Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.

Propeller :: Propeller (n.) A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel..

Eupryion :: Eupryion (n.) A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneous, as a lucifer match..

Register :: Register (n.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.

Finesse :: Finesse (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.

Excogitation :: Excogitation (n.) The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

Plot :: Plot (n.) Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

Invention :: Invention (n.) The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing..

Deceit :: Deceit (n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud..

Napier''s Rods :: Napier's rods () A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division..

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..

Roaster :: Roaster (n.) A contrivance for roasting.

Cyclometer :: Cyclometer (n.) A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle..

Hectograph :: Hectograph (n.) A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin..

Trochometer :: Trochometer (n.) A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.

Melodiograph :: Melodiograph (n.) A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon..

Telpher :: Telpher (n.) A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.

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