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Invention :: Invention (n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.

Invention :: Invention (n.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts..

Fecundity :: Fecundity (n.) The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power..

Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

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

Inventful :: Inventful (a.) Full of invention.

Patent :: Patent (a.) A writing securing to an invention.

Invention :: Invention (n.) The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing..

Caveat :: Caveat (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention..

Motive :: Motive (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one..

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

Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..

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

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..

Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention..

Notion :: Notion () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions..

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

Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.

Device :: Device (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

Excogitation :: Excogitation (n.) The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

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