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Manager :: Manager (n.) A contriver; an intriguer.

Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers..

Devisable :: Devisable (a.) Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived..

Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..

Contrive :: Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

Fudge :: Fudge (v. t.) To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

Claptrap :: Claptrap (a.) Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal..

Highmen :: Highmen (n. pl.) Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers.

Carve :: Carve (v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

Ingenious :: Ingenious (a.) Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic..

Hood :: Hood (n.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind..

Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.

Hatcher :: Hatcher (n.) One who contrives or originates; a plotter.

Getterup :: Getterup (n.) One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc..

Father :: Father (n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher..

Thermoscope :: Thermoscope (n.) An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer..

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument..

Catch :: Catch (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words..

Plot :: Plot (v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

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