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Contrivance :: Contrivance (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement..

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

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

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

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

Contriver :: Contriver (n.) One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas..

Getterup :: Getterup (n.) One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Procure :: Procure (v. t.) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.

Forecast :: Forecast (v. i.) To contrive or plan beforehand.

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

Resonator :: Resonator (n.) Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds..

Epigram :: Epigram (n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character..

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..

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