Word Meanings - MACHINATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. Glanvill. Sir W. Scott.
Related words: (words related to MACHINATOR)
- PLOTTER
One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. Dryden. - ARTFULNESS
The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft. - ARTFUL
1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton. 2. Artificial; imitative. Addison. 3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He too artful a writer to set down - SCOTTICIZE
To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish. - SCOTTISH
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect. - ARTFULLY
In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily. - SCOTTISH TERRIER
See TERRIER - SCHEME
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment o at a given event. A blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Plan; project; contrivance; purpose; device; plot. -- Scheme, Plan. Scheme and - SCOTTERING
The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. - SCHEMEFUL
Full of schemes or plans. - SCHEMER
One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer. Schemers and confederates in guilt. Paley. - SCOTTICISM
An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson. - STARTFULNESS
Aptness to start. - UNARTFUL
Lacking art or skill; artless. Congreve. -- Un*art"ful*ly, adv. Swift. Burke. - MASCOT; MASCOTTE
A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck. - STARTFUL
Apt to start; skittish. - COMPLOTTER
One joined in a plot. Dryden.