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DEVICE, n. L.

1. That which is formed by design, or invented scheme artificial contrivance stratagem project sometimes in a good sense more generally in a bad sense, as artifices are usually employed for bad purposes.

In a good sense:

His device is against Babylon, to destroy it. Jeremiah 51 .

In a bad sense:

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job 5 .

They imagined a mischievous device. Psalms 212 .

2. An emblem intended to represent a family, person, action or quality, with a suitable motto used in painting, sculpture and heraldry. It consists in a metaphorical similitude between the things representing and represented, as the figure of a plow representing agriculture.

Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields.

3. Invention genius faculty of devising as a man of noble device.

4. A spectacle or show.