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

Manager :: Manager (n.) A contriver; an intriguer.

Machinate :: Machinate (v. i.) To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan..

Manage :: Manage (n.) To bring about; to contrive.

Plot :: Plot (v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

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

Premeditate :: Premeditate (v. t.) To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery..

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To contrive; to plan.

Contrive :: Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

Seek-sorrow :: Seek-sorrow (n.) One who contrives to give himself vexation.

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

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

Temple :: Temple (n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

Carve :: Carve (v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

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..

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

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

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..

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