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Practice :: Practice (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.

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

Trick :: Trick (a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade..

Capture :: Capture (n.) The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey..

Coup :: Coup (n.) A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.

Trapan :: Trapan (n.) A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.

Manoeuvre :: Manoeuvre (n.) Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.

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..

Countermine :: Countermine (n.) A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.

Trunkwork :: Trunkwork (n.) Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.

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

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

Supplant :: Supplant (n.) To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince..

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

Plot :: Plot (n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot..

Plot :: Plot (v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.

Feint :: Feint (a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.

Elude :: Elude (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow..

Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

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

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