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English Dictionary: Contraptious by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Contraption \Con*trap"tion\, n.
      A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully.
      [Colloq. or Dial.] -- {Con*trap"tious}, a.
  
               We all remember some of the extraordinary contraptions
               which have been thus evolved and put upon the market.
                                                                              --F. M. Ware.
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