Contrive

Webster's Condensed Dictionary- A Condensed Dictionary of the English Language · 1909 · p. 129

kon-trlv', v. [-TEivED( -trivd, ),-TKivi.vG.] To form by exercise of ingenuity, devise, invent, plan, concert, plot. — v. To make devices, plan. [OF. con trover, to find, fr. aon and trover (F. trou- — ver), to find, LL. tropare, to invent, devise.] GontrivSr, n. — Contriv'able, a. — Contrivance, n. Act of, etc.; thing contrived; an act of cunning; scheme; invention; project; artifice; shift.