shift &c. (substitute) 147; last shift &c. (necessity) 601.
     measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card,
court card; cheval de bataille[Fr], great gun; coup, coup d’etat[Fr]; clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke; bright thought, bright idea.
     intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot[obs3], machination;
subplot, underplot[obs3], counterplot.
     schemer, schemist[obs3], schematist|; strategist, machinator;
projector, artist, promoter, designer &c. v.; conspirator; intrigant &c. (cunning) 702[obs3]. 
     V. plan,,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch;
devise, invent &c. (imagine) 515; set one’s wits to work &c. 515; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine &c. 611; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare &c. 673; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures.
     cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange &c. 60; digest, mature.
     plot; counter-plot, counter-mine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue
&c. (cunning) 702. 
     Adj. planned &c. v.; strategic, strategical; planning &c. v.;
prepared, in course of preparation &c. 673; under consideration; on the tapis[obs3], on the carpet, on the floor.

     #627.  Method. [Path.] —­ N. method, way, manner, wise, gait, form,
mode, fashion, tone, guise; modus operandi, MO; procedure &c. (line of conduct) 692.
     path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory,
orbit, track, beat, tack.
     steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile;
perron[obs3].
     bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway;
drawbridge; pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe &c. 260.
     door; gateway &c. (opening) 260; channel, passage, avenue, means of
access, approach, adit[obs3]; artery, lane, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back-door, back-stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel[obs3].
     roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike,
freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King’s highway, Queen’s highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir[obs3], footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut &c. (mid-course) 628; carrefour[obs3]; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal &c. (conduit) 350; street &c. (abode) 189; speedway. adv. how; in what way, in what manner; by what mode; so, in this way, after this fashion.
     one way or another, anyhow; somehow or other &c. (instrumentality)
631; by way of; via; in transitu &c. 270[Lat]; on the high road to. 
     Phr. hae tibi erunt artes[Lat].

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