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Whitworth Gun :: Whitworth gun () A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England..

Sapphic :: Sapphic (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl..

Mithridate :: Mithridate (n.) An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; -- so called from King Mithridates, its reputed inventor..

Celsius :: Celsius (n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale..

Deviceful :: Deviceful (a.) Full of devices; inventive.

Inventious :: Inventious (a.) Inventive.

Diorama :: Diorama (n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced..

Fable :: Fable (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely..

Witcraft :: Witcraft (n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.

Design :: Design (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole..

Fabulize :: Fabulize (v. i.) To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions..

Arquebuse :: Arquebuse (n.) A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention..

Mimeograph :: Mimeograph (n.) An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.

Daguerreian :: Daguerreian (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype..

Barker''s Mill :: Barker's mill () A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis..

Shrapnel :: Shrapnel (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.

Cissoid :: Cissoid (n.) A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines..

Gunter''s Scale :: Gunter's scale () A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant..

Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

Thoth :: Thoth (n.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb..

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