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Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

Cozenage :: Cozenage (n.) The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.

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

Stratagemical :: Stratagem (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination..

Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..

Artificer :: Artificer (n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith..

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

Conveyer :: Conveyer (n.) One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.

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..

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument..

Filibuster :: Filibuster (v. i.) To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices..

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..

Cog :: Cog (v. t.) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat..

Court-craft :: Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts..

Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

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..

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..

Wile :: Wile (n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement..

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