( 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.
( 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012