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

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

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..

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

Malefice :: Malefice (n.) An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.

Courtship :: Courtship (n.) Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse.

Finesse :: Finesse (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.

Dodgery :: Dodgery (n.) trickery; 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..

Practice :: Practice (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.

Wile :: Wile (n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement..

Swindle :: Swindle (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property..

Practice :: Practice (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.

Machiavelianism :: Machiavelianism (n.) The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power..

Decoy :: Decoy (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net..

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..

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..

Stratagemical :: Stratagem (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination..

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

Fish :: Fish (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments..

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