transitive. To contrive, devise, invent; to compose (a song, music, etc.); to discover (a scientific fact, etc.). Obsolete.

To plan, devise. With reflexive dative. Obsolete. rare.

To order, appoint, or arrange the plan or design of; to plan, contrive, think out, frame, invent. something immaterial or abstract, or a product of…

To devise (a plan, a remedy.)

transitive. figurative. To weave, contrive, devise. Also with up, and absol.

transitive. To contrive, plan, design; to construct. Also: to frame or fit together by design. Obsolete.

figurative. To contrive, fabricate, or construct (a mental product) with elaborate care. Also with out, up.

transitive. To devise. Also: to prepare. rare.

transitive. To think out, devise, contrive. In later use only with out. Now rare (chiefly North American).

transitive. To devise, contrive, invent; = conject, v. 3.

figurative. To evolve, produce, contrive, or devise, in a manner suggestive of spinning.

transitive. To devise, contrive, plan, design.

To determine on in the way of a plan or purpose; to find out or hit upon (a way to do something) by… transitive. With simple object or…

transitive. to pattern out: to outline; to plan out or construct according to a pattern or model. Obsolete.

figurative. To prepare, devise, concoct, v. Obsolete. rare.

To contrive smoothly. Obsolete. rare.

To contrive, devise, plan. Obsolete.

To arrange in or according to fancy, or with artistic taste; to contrive, devise, design, plan.

transitive. figurative and in extended use.

figurative. To build up (a theory, conclusion, etc.), set up (a pretension). Also absol.