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Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc..

Device :: 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..

Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.].

Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..

Relay :: Relay (n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing..

Refuge :: Refuge (n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.

Devicefully :: Devicefully (adv.) In a deviceful manner.

Blotter :: Blotter (n.) One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink..

Gimcrack :: Gimcrack (n.) A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.

Bootjack :: Bootjack (n.) A device for pulling off boots.

Reel :: Reel (n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives..

Stratagemical :: Stratagem (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination..

Grip :: Grip (v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers..

Gimmor :: Gimmor (n.) A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron..

Gaud :: Gaud (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.

Automatical :: Automatical (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse..

Impresa :: Impresa (n.) A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like..

Chintz :: Chintz (n.) Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed..

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