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Fudge :: Fudge (v. t.) To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

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..

Point-devise :: Point-devise (adv.) Exactly.

Pageant :: Pageant (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display..

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

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

Devised :: Devised (imp. & p. p.) of Devis.

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..

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..

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

Plot :: Plot (v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

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

Prepense :: Prepense (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense..

Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false..

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

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

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..

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

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

Heliometer :: Heliometer (n.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

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