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Interpleader :: Interpleader (n.) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him..

Haemoscope :: Haemoscope (n.) An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination..

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

Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..

Able :: Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property..

Plan :: Plan (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition..

Condition :: Condition (n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend..

Devise :: Devise (n.) Device. See Device.

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.

Pasteurization :: Pasteurization (n.) A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140� F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments..

Machination :: Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

Point-devise :: Point-devise (a.) Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.

Testable :: Testable (a.) Capable of being devised, or given by will..

Project :: Project (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

Whimsical :: Whimsical (a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.

Forgery :: Forgery (n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited..

Fable :: Fable (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely..

Leucoscope :: Leucoscope (n.) An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent colors or their relative whiteness..

Excogitate :: Excogitate (v. t.) To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

Abator :: Abator (n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

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