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Devise :: Devise (n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property..

Point-devise :: Point-devise (a.) Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.

Interpleader :: Interpleader (n.) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him..

Fable :: Fable (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely..

Will :: Will (v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1..

Extemporiness :: Extemporiness (n.) The quality of being done or devised extempor.

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.

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

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

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

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Contrive :: Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

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

Executory :: Executory (a.) Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract..

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..

Subtle :: Subtle (superl.) Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem..

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..

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

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

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

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