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

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

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

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..

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

Gyroscope :: Gyroscope (n.) A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope..

Machination :: Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

Construct :: Construct (v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics..

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

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

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

Geissler Tube :: Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it..

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

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

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

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..

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..

Self-devised :: Self-devised (a.) Devised by one's self.

Able :: Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property..

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

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