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Devisor :: Devisor (n.) One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee..

Geissler Tube :: Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it..

Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false..

Pageant :: Pageant (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display..

Devised :: Devised (imp. & p. p.) of Devis.

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.

Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..

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

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him..

Subtle :: Subtle (superl.) Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem..

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

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

Concert :: Concert (v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.

Devise :: Devise (n.) Property devised, or given by will..

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

Consult :: Consult (v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

Will :: Will (v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1..

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

Prepense :: Prepense (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense..

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