Contrive

a. [Fr. controuver-con, and trouver, to find; Ger. treffen, to hit, to reach; 0. Ger. tref an, to hit, to strike.] To invent; to discover; to devise; to plan; to concert; to plot; to hatch. "The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day." - Goldsmith. -v. i. To form or design; to plan; to scheme. "Masking habits, and a borrowed name, Contrive to hide my plenitude of shame." - Prior. IMG:content-0357.png:[blocks in formation]