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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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..
Covin :: Covin (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice.
Cabal :: Cabal (n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
Lapidary :: Lapidary (n.) An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones..
Shifter :: Shifter (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener..
Manuary :: Manuary (n.) An artificer.
Avail :: Avail (v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment..
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..
Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.
Get :: Get (n.) Artifice; contrivance.
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith..
Angle :: Angle (v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise..
Court-craft :: Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts..
Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..
Wright :: Wright (n.) One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc..
Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..
Wile :: Wile (v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
Juggle :: Juggle (v. t.) To deceive by trick or artifice.
Unfair :: Unfair (a.) Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.
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