Definition of artifice

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Artifice (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.

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Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Cartwright :: Cartwright (n.) An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
Angle :: Angle (v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise..
Swindle :: Swindle (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property..
Dodgery :: Dodgery (n.) trickery; artifice.
Trick :: Trick (a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade..
Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..
Manualist :: Manualist (n.) One who works with the hands; an artificer.
Strath :: Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Craftsman :: Craftsman (n.) One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
Subterrane :: Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion..
Elusion :: Elusion (n.) Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery..
Sleight :: Sleight (n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..
Lapidary :: Lapidary (n.) An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones..
Fraudulent :: Fraudulent (a.) Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) A cunning or artful fellow.
Craftiness :: Craftiness (n.) Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
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