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Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work..

Illude :: Illude (v. t.) To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.

Counterplot :: Counterplot (n.) A plot or artifice opposed to another.

Craft :: Craft (v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.

Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..

Covin :: Covin (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice.

Politician :: Politician (a.) Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.

Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..

Workman :: Workman (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer..

Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

Insnare :: Insnare (v. t.) To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle..

Filibuster :: Filibuster (v. i.) To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices..

Cozenage :: Cozenage (n.) The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.

Elude :: Elude (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow..

Wile :: Wile (v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.

Architect :: Architect (n.) A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed..

Opificer :: Opificer (n.) An artificer; a workman.

Angle :: Angle (v. t.) To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.

Mechanic :: Mechanic (a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments..

Overhear :: Overhear (v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

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