Definition of stratagem

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Strata (n.) pl. of Stratum.

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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.
Wily :: Wily (superl.) Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle..
Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Strath :: Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Countermine :: Countermine (n.) A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.
Practice :: Practice (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
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..
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..
Wile :: Wile (n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement..
Subtle :: Subtle (superl.) Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem..
Practicer :: Practicer (n.) One who uses art or stratagem.
Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Feint :: Feint (a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Finesse :: Finesse (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
Trap :: Trap (v. t.) Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
Cunning :: Cunning (a.) The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
Stratarithmetry :: Stratagemical (a.) Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle..
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..
Trapan :: Trapan (n.) A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.
Plot :: Plot (n.) A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
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