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

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..

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Hatch :: Hatch (v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Project :: Project (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan..

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

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