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Devise :: Devise (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

Plotter :: Plotter (n.) One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.

Machinate :: Machinate (v. i.) To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot..

Contrive :: Contrive (v. i.) To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

Designer :: Designer (n.) One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver..

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

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To contrive; to plan.

Architect :: Architect (n.) A contriver, designer, or maker..

Hatch :: Hatch (v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy..

Ingeniate :: Ingeniate (v. t. & i.) To invent; to contrive.

Figure :: Figure (v. t.) To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan..

Manage :: Manage (n.) To bring about; to contrive.

Enginer :: Enginer (n.) A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.

Artless :: Artless (a.) Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.

Epigram :: Epigram (n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character..

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

Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

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

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

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