(a) Inventive talent, ingenuity, cleverness, skill; also, skill in magic or occult science; bi (mid, thurgh, with) ~, ingeniously, cleverly, skillfully; by magic; (b) queint of ~, of queint ~, of persons: clever of invention; of things: ingeniously devised, skillfully made.

(a) A means of effecting a purpose, an expedient, scheme; bi (for, mid, thurgh, with) no ~, by no means; setten ginnes, to devise a scheme; ginnes of gemetrie, the operations of geomancy, ?the art of geomancy; (b) clever policy, strategy; trickery, treachery; (c) a clever scheme, stratagem; a trick, ruse, wile; fendes (develes) ginnes, the wiles of the devil; (d) a snare, trap, net; also fig.; maken (setten) ~, set a snare, lay a trap; (e) ?a happening.

(a) An ingenious device or contrivance; a ship; a mechanical contrivance, machine; an instrument; also fig.; (b) a hoist, crane; rering ~; (c) ~ ston, a grindstone worked by a mechanism; jousting ~, ?a jousting ring; fig. some article of dress.

Mil. (a) A machine or structure used in assaulting or defending fortifications, a siege machine or tower; also fig.; ~ of werre; (b) a siege machine for throwing missiles; also fig.; castand ~; trump of ~, a tube through which Greek fire was sprayed; (c) ?a weapon of personal combat.

As surname.