Devise

1. n. Device. See Device.
2. v. t. To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.
3. v. t. To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
4. v. t. To say; to relate; to describe.
5. v. t. To imagine; to guess.
6. v. t. To give by will; — used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
7. v. i. To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
8. n. The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; — sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
9. n. A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
10. n. Property devised, or given by will.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.