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1. A crafty device, artifice, stratagem; a trick, sleight, deceit.
2. Cunning, craftiness, wiliness, trickery.
3. A precaution; in Law, etc.; an exception, restriction, or reservation made for precaution's sake.
4. A caution or direction for the proper administration of the sacraments; especially in cautels of the Mass.
5. In its verb form: To devise cunningly or craftily.

Care; caution; vigilance; prevision.

1. Full of cautels; deceitful, crafty, artful, wily.
2. Cautious, wary, heedful, circumspect.

1. Craftily, deceitfully, artfully.
2. Cautiously, warily, circumspectly.

In the civil and French law, security given for the performance of anything; bail; a bond or undertaking by way of surety. Also the person who becomes a surety.

1. Careful forethought.
2. A warning; admonishment.
3. To warn against danger.
4. A word of warning; a caveat, monition; a hint or advice to anyone to take heed.

1. Of, pertaining to, of the nature of a pledge or security; held in pledge, or as a security or hostage.
2. Of the nature of, or conveying, a caution or admonition; warning, admonitory.

Distinguished or marked by caution; heedful, wary, careful, circumspect: said of persons, their conduct, and acts.

In a cautious manner, with caution; warily, heedfully, carefully, circumspectly.

1. The trait of being cautious.
2. Being attentive to possible danger.

Security, that tenants for life give, to preserve the property rented free from waste and injury.

Incautious, unwary, heedless.

Incautiously, heedlessly.

Not cautious; wanting in caution; careless, heedless, unwary, rash.

Not incautious of the future.

Motto of the Hagerstown Business College, USA.