Noah Webster
Contrivance
CONTRIVANCE, noun [See Contrive.]
1. The act of inventing, devising or planning.
There is no work impossible to these contrivances.
2. The thing invented or planned; a scheme; plan; disposition of parts or causes by design.
Our bodies are made according to the most orderly contrivance
3. Artifice; plot; scheme.
He has managed his contrivance well.