·noun Opinion; decision.
II. Device ·noun A spectacle or show.
III. Device ·noun Anything fancifully conceived.
IV. Device ·noun Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
V. Device ·noun Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
VI. Device ·noun That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an Artifice.
VII. Device ·noun An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. ·see Cognizance.