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Fabricate :: Fabricate (v. t.) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story..

Inventious :: Inventious (a.) Inventive.

Ingenious :: Ingenious (a.) Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic..

Siderography :: Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy..

Patent :: Patent (v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands..

Design :: Design (n.) The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design..

Woulfe Bottle :: Woulfe bottle (n.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist..

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

Inventories :: Inventories (pl. ) of Inventor.

Napier''s Rods :: Napier's rods () A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division..

Fabulous :: Fabulous (a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero..

Invention :: Invention (n.) That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention..

Diagometer :: Diagometer (n.) A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power..

Bergamot :: Bergamot (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit..

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

Fabulist :: Fabulist (n.) One who invents or writes fables.

Anagraph :: Anagraph (n.) An inventory; a record.

Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..

Mint :: Mint (v. t.) To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

Gramme Machine :: Gramme machine () A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme..

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