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Figure :: Figure (v. t.) To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination..

Plotter :: Plotter (n.) One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.

Enginer :: Enginer (n.) A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.

Fudge :: Fudge (v. t.) To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

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

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

Brew :: Brew (v. t.) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief..

Hatcher :: Hatcher (n.) One who contrives or originates; a plotter.

Contrivement :: Contrivement (n.) Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.

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

Plot :: Plot (v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.

Consult :: Consult (v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

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

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

Forethink :: Forethink (v. t.) To contrive (something) beforehend.

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

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument..

Designer :: Designer (n.) One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver..

Ingeniate :: Ingeniate (v. t. & i.) To invent; to contrive.

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