Synonym: appliance, contraption, convenience, devisal, dodge, gadget, gismo, gizmo, lash-up, stratagem, widget. Similar words: contrive, contrived, connivance, contrite, contribute, contributor, contrition, contributory. Meaning: [kən'traɪvns] 
n. 1. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job 2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill 3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade 4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. 5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use 6. the act of devising something.
n. 1. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job 2. the faculty of contriving; inventive skill 3. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade 4. an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. 5. any improvised arrangement for temporary use 6. the act of devising something. 
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31. Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.
32. In the night I took my first contrivance, and got up into a tree.
33. Curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth.
More similar words: contrive, contrived, connivance, contrite, contribute, contributor, contrition, contributory, contributing, contribution, contribute to, discontinuance, on the contrary, controlled economy, advance, advanced, relevance, in advance, grievance, cash advance, contra, advancement, in advance of, control, conservancy, contrast, contrary, contract, entrance, in contrast.