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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..

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..

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

Contrive :: Contrive (v. i.) To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

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..

Forethink :: Forethink (v. i.) To contrive beforehand.

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..

Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

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

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..

Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..

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

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

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

Architect :: Architect (n.) A contriver, designer, or maker..

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

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

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

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

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