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Coupling :: Coupling (n.) A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts..

Water-closet :: Water-closet (n.) A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it..

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

Witcraft :: Witcraft (n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.

File :: File (n.) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order..

Loader :: Loader (n.) One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun..

Invention :: Invention (n.) That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention..

Slur :: Slur (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them..

Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..

Rule :: Rule (n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book..

Teasel :: Teasel (n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

Escapement :: Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration..

Modify :: Modify (v. t.) To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract..

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage..

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

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

Ingenious :: Ingenious (a.) Proseeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc..

Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow..

Deceit :: Deceit (n.) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation..

Providential :: Providential (a.) Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape..

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