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Agitate :: Agitate (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs..

Machinate :: Machinate (v. t.) To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil..

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

Catchpenny :: Catchpenny (a.) Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show..

Ingenious :: Ingenious (a.) Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic..

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

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

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..

Imaginer :: Imaginer (n.) One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.

Plan :: Plan (v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country..

Devise :: Devise (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

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

Excogitate :: Excogitate (v. t.) To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Pack :: Pack (n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

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