Artifice(n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
Artifice(n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
Artifice(n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.
Artifice(n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
Artificer(n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
Artificer(n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
Artificer(n.) A cunning or artful fellow.
Artificer(n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
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