Both Uses

artifice
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice.†
Chpt 1.7 *
Miss Ophelia had just the capability of indignation that belongs to the thorough-paced housekeeper, and this had been pretty actively roused by the artifice and wastefulness of the child; in fact, many of my lady readers must own that they should have felt just so in her circumstances; but Marie's words went beyond her, and she felt less heat.†
Chpt 2.25

Definitions:

(1) (artifice)
deceptive behavior or something made to deceive
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In older writing, artifice simply meant any skillfully created object or invention—not just trickery like today.