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Highmen :: Highmen (n. pl.) Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers.

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

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

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

Cipher :: Cipher (n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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