ETYM Latin artificium, from artifex artificer; ars, artis, art + facere to make: cf. French artifice.
1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
3. Artful or skillful contrivance.
4. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.
5. Ingenuity; skill; trickery.

1. An artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
2. An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; SYN. stratagem, dodge.
3. The faculty of contriving; inventive skill.

The quality of being crafty; SYN. deceitfulness, guile.

1. Magical actions.
2. Fancy or complicated actions

1. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); SYN. chicanery, guile, wile, shenanigan.
2. Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of one in some way; SYN. hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery.

The quality of being tricky or deceitful.

ETYM Old Eng. wile, AS. wîl; cf. Icel. val, vael. Related to Guile.
(Homonym: while).
A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.