Definition of artifice

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

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Overhear :: Overhear (v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
Ruse :: Ruse (n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Stratagemical :: Stratagem (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination..
Trick :: Trick (v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse..
Gin :: Gin (n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
Court-craft :: Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts..
Cabal :: Cabal (n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
Filibuster :: Filibuster (v. i.) To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices..
Craft :: Craft (n.) Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices..
Wright :: Wright (n.) One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc..
Locksmith :: Locksmith (n.) An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
Fish :: Fish (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory..
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Practice :: Practice (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith..
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