Definition of artifice

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Artifice (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

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Courtship :: Courtship (n.) Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse.
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..
Tradesman :: Tradesman (n.) A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands..
Practice :: Practice (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
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.
Insnare :: Insnare (v. t.) To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle..
Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.
Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
Deception :: Deception (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
Craftiness :: Craftiness (n.) Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Mechanic :: Mechanic (a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith..
Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..
Deceit :: Deceit (n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud..
Ruse :: Ruse (n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Workman :: Workman (n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer..
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..
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Cabal :: Cabal (n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
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