devise
/dɪˈvaɪz/ noun C2- The act of leaving real property in a will.
- Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
- The real property left in such a will.
- Design, devising.
Plural devises
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THE MICE summoned a council to decide how they might best devise means of warning themselves of the approach of their great enemy the Cat.
“You can imagine, Watson, with what eagerness I listened to this extraordinary sequence of events, and endeavoured to piece them together, and to devise some common thread upon which they might all hang.
Phelps and I talked it over on our journey, but neither of us could devise a satisfactory reason for this new development.
But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship.
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