Definition of device

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Device (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance..

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Swatte :: Swather (n.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
Mahovo :: Mahovo (n.) A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel..
Switched :: Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
Mimeograph :: Mimeograph (n.) An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.
Art :: Art (n.) Skillful plan; device.
Breech Sight :: Breech sight () A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim..
Point-device :: Point-device (adv.) Alt. of Point-devis.
Extractor :: Extractor (n.) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.
Unloader :: Unloader (n.) One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon..
Salve :: Salve (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over..
Claptrap :: Claptrap (n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.
Craft :: Craft (n.) Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices..
Tagger :: Tagger (n.) A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
Arbalist :: Arbalist (n.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc..
Hog :: Hog (n.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
Pessary :: Pessary (n.) An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition..
Inventor :: Inventor (n.) One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices..
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Devicefully :: Devicefully (adv.) In a deviceful manner.
Devise :: Devise (n.) Device. See Device.
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