DEVICE

An invention or contrivance;. any result of design; as ln the phrase "gambling device," which means a machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing of an unlawful game of chance or hazard. State v. Black stone, 115 Mo. 424, 22 s. W. 370. Also, a plan or project; a scheme to trick or deceive; a stratagem or artifice; ·as 1n the laws relating to fraud and {:heating. State v. Smith, 82 Minn. 342, 85 N. W. 12. Also an emblem, pictoriat representation, or distinguishing mark or sign of any kind; as 1n the 1aws prohlibitlng the marking of ballots used in public elections with "any device." Baxter v. Ellis, 111 N. C. 124, 15 S. E. 938, 17,:,_ R. A. 382; Owens v. State, 64 Tex. 509; Steele v. Calhoun, ·61 Mi . 556. · In a statute against gaming devices, this term is to be understood as meaning something formed by design, a contrivance, an invention. It is to be dist in,guished from "substitute," which means something 1mt, in the place of another thing, or used instead of something else. Henderson v. State, 59 Ala. 9L In patent law. A plan or contrivance, or an application, adjustment, shaping, or combination of materials or members, for the purpose of accomplishing a particular result or serving a particular use, chiefly by mechanical means and usually simple. ln character or not highly complex, but Involving the exercise of the inventive faculty. DEVIL ON THE NECK. ~ Instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confesllions, etc. · It was made ·of several 1.rO'ns, which were fastened to the neck and legs, [s. 370]