Contrivance
Pronunciation : Con*triv"ance
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.
2. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.
Syn. -- Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project; design; artifice; shift. See Device.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913