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

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand..

Invent :: Invent (v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine..

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

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..

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

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

Will :: Will (n.) To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch..

Devise :: Devise (n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property..

Ophthalmometer :: Ophthalmometer (n.) An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained..

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

Residue :: Residue (n.) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies..

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

Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

Voltaic :: Voltaic (a.) Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity..

Politic :: Politic (a.) Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty..

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

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

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To imagine; to guess.

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

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