Term: contrivance: the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
Candidate hypernym: invention: the creation of something in the mind → 1
Candidate hypernym: silverware: tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel → 0
Candidate hypernym: psittaciformes: an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets → 0
Candidate hypernym: able seaman: a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills → 0
Candidate hypernym: hurry: a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry → 0
Candidate hypernym: trifle: a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate → 0
Candidate hypernym: subsistence: minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting → 0
Candidate hypernym: oil lamp: a lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light → 0
Candidate hypernym: dint: interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of' → 0
Candidate hypernym: lutist: a musician who plays the lute → 0
Candidate hypernym: flying dutchman: a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope → 0