Definition of artifice

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

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Abovedeck :: Abovedeck (a.) On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice..
Reach :: Reach (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory..
Architect :: Architect (n.) A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed..
Conveyance :: Conveyance (n.) Dishonest management, or artifice..
Conveyer :: Conveyer (n.) One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.
Cog :: Cog (v. t.) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat..
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..
Angle :: Angle (v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise..
Court-craft :: Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts..
Cozenage :: Cozenage (n.) The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.
Craft :: Craft (v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.
Workman :: Workman (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer..
Malefice :: Malefice (n.) An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.
Fetch :: Fetch (n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice..
Manuary :: Manuary (n.) An artificer.
Strath :: Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..
Deception :: Deception (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..
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