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

Timbered :: Timbered (a.) Built; formed; contrived.

Contrived :: Contrived (imp. & p. p.) of Contriv.

Conceited :: Conceited (a.) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.

Staniel :: Stanhope (n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived..

Trangram :: Trangram (n.) Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle.

Sackbut :: Sackbut (n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone..

Prepense :: Prepense (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense..

Postliminiar :: Postliminiar (a.) Contrived, done, or existing subsequently..

Artless :: Artless (a.) Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.

Epigram :: Epigram (n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character..

Enginous :: Enginous (a.) Contrived with care; ingenious.

Contrivance :: Contrivance (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement..

Puzzle :: Puzzle (v.) Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making..

Humbug :: Humbug (n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

Contrivble :: Contrivble (a.) Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised..

Claptrap :: Claptrap (a.) Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal..

Catch :: Catch (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words..

Thermoscope :: Thermoscope (n.) An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer..

Devisable :: Devisable (a.) Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived..

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