CE. An Invention or contrivance; any result of; design; as in the phruse “gambling device,” which means a machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing of an unlawful game of chance or hazard. State v. Blackstone, 115 Mo. 424, 22 S. W. 370. Also, a plan or project; a scheme to trick or de-celve; a stratagem or artifice; as in the laws relating to fraud and cheating. State v. Smith, 82 Minn. 342, 85 N. W. 12. Also an emblem, pictorial representation, or distin-guishing mark or sign of any kind; as in the idws prohibiting the marking of ballots used in public elections with “ahy device.” Bax-ter v. Ellis, 111 N. C. 124, 15 S. E. 938, 17 L. R. Ai 382; owens v. State, 64 Tex. 509; Steele v. Calhoun, 61 Miss. 556
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
