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Whimsical :: Whimsical (a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.

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

Forgery :: Forgery (n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited..

Charity :: Charity (n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions..

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

Consult :: Consult (v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

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

Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..

Concert :: Concert (v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.

Project :: Project (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

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..

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

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels..

Pasteurization :: Pasteurization (n.) A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140¡ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments..

Condition :: Condition (n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend..

Devisor :: Devisor (n.) One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee..

Phonotypy :: Phonotypy (n.) A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character..

Deviser :: Deviser (n.) One who devises.

Ophthalmometer :: Ophthalmometer (n.) An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained..

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

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