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Logarithm :: Logarithm (n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division..

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

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

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

Haemoscope :: Haemoscope (n.) An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination..

Plan :: Plan (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition..

Devise :: Devise (n.) Property devised, or given by will..

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..

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

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

Imagine :: Imagine (v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

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 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..

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

Abator :: Abator (n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To imagine; to guess.

Intestate :: Intestate (a.) Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate..

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

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

Devisee :: Devisee (n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will..

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