Definition of artifice

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

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Artificer :: Artificer (n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith..
Wary :: Wary (a.) Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, artifices, and dangers; timorously or suspiciously prudent; circumspect; scrupulous; careful..
Unfair :: Unfair (a.) Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.
Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..
Strath :: Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Conveyer :: Conveyer (n.) One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.
Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.
Cog :: Cog (v. t.) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat..
Guile :: Guile (n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work..
Simple :: Simple (a.) Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true..
Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..
Locksmith :: Locksmith (n.) An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
Insnare :: Insnare (v. t.) To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle..
Tradesman :: Tradesman (n.) A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
Swindle :: Swindle (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property..
Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..
Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
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