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A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc. [Southern U.S.]

Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.

One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. "Artificer of fraud." Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.

To endow with a benefice.

Possessed of a benefice o "Beneficed clergymen." Burke.

Having no benefice. "Beneficeless precisians." Sheldon.

goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott.

Relating to beneficence.

In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

A kind of fungus. See Puffball.

The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

Anything made of wool. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence." Chaucer. And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. Milton. The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence. Eustace.

ction; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence. A prince is never so magnificent As when he's sparing to enrich a few With the injuries of many. Massinger.

In a Magnificent manner.

An evil deed; artifice; enchantment. [Obs.]

Evil doing, esp. to others.