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Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.].

Circumventive :: Circumventive (a.) Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.

Manualist :: Manualist (n.) One who works with the hands; an artificer.

Swindle :: Swindle (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property..

Tradesman :: Tradesman (n.) A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands..

Craftiness :: Craftiness (n.) Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.

Elusion :: Elusion (n.) Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery..

Cabal :: Cabal (n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.

Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..

Plant :: Plant (n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

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

Artificer :: Artificer (n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory..

Artificer :: Artificer (n.) A cunning or artful fellow.

Juggle :: Juggle (v. i.) To practice artifice or imposture.

Strath :: Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.

Finesse :: Finesse (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.

Avail :: Avail (v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment..

Deceit :: Deceit (n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud..

Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

Mechanic :: Mechanic (a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments..

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