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.
Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
Anything fancifully conceived.
A spectacle or show.
Opinion; decision.
any artifactual object designed to perform an action or process, with or without an operator in attendance.
To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.
To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
To say; to relate; to describe.
To imagine; to guess.
To give by will; - used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; - sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
Property devised, or given by will.
Device. See Device.
