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Self-registering :: Self-registering (a.) Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer..

Hood :: Hood (n.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Concerted :: Concerted (a.) Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals..

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

Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers..

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

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

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