Definition of artifice

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Artifice (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.].

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Cartwright :: Cartwright (n.) An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
Manuary :: Manuary (n.) An artificer.
Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
Plant :: Plant (n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..
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
Deception :: Deception (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
Cozenage :: Cozenage (n.) The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.
Angle :: Angle (v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise..
Unfair :: Unfair (a.) Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.
Elusion :: Elusion (n.) Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery..
Filibuster :: Filibuster (v. i.) To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices..
Cog :: Cog (v. t.) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat..
Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work..
Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.
Art :: Art (n.) Cunning; artifice; craft.
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Swindle :: Swindle (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property..
Illude :: Illude (v. t.) To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
Trick :: Trick (a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade..
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