Definition of artifice

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

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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.
Wile :: Wile (n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement..
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.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
Evasive :: Evasive (a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice..
Elusion :: Elusion (n.) Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery..
Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..
Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Get :: Get (n.) Artifice; contrivance.
Fetch :: Fetch (n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice..
Practice :: Practice (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
Deception :: Deception (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
Take :: Take (v. t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like..
Shuffle :: Shuffle (n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Sleight :: Sleight (n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
Art :: Art (n.) Cunning; artifice; craft.
Juggle :: Juggle (v. t.) To deceive by trick or artifice.
Artifice :: Artifice (n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
Manualist :: Manualist (n.) One who works with the hands; an artificer.
Overreach :: Overreach (v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat..
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