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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.

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..

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

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

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

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..

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.

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

Pantisocracy :: Pantisocracy (n.) A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days..

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

Conceive :: Conceive (v. t.) To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope..

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

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

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

Invent :: Invent (v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine..

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..

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

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

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

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

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