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.