Definition of artifice

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Artifice (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

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Guile :: Guile (n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Architect :: Architect (n.) A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed..
Countermark :: Countermark (n.) A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was tak
Juggle :: Juggle (v. i.) To practice artifice or imposture.
Entrap :: Entrap (v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..
Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Cabal :: Cabal (n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
Craftsman :: Craftsman (n.) One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument..
Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..
Overreach :: Overreach (v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat..
Illude :: Illude (v. t.) To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
Malefice :: Malefice (n.) An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.
Dodgery :: Dodgery (n.) trickery; artifice.
Manualist :: Manualist (n.) One who works with the hands; an artificer.
Mechanic :: Mechanic (a.) Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar..
Shuffle :: Shuffle (n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Wile :: Wile (v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
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