Definition of artifice

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Artifice (n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.

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Manualist :: Manualist (n.) One who works with the hands; an artificer.
Art :: Art (n.) Cunning; artifice; craft.
Guile :: Guile (n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Practice :: Practice (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Unfair :: Unfair (a.) Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.
Fish :: Fish (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments..
Swindle :: Swindle (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property..
Craft :: Craft (v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.
Avail :: Avail (v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment..
Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
Craftiness :: Craftiness (n.) Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
Workman :: Workman (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer..
Train :: Train (v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure..
Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout..
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.
Strath :: Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Angle :: Angle (v. t.) To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.
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