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

Interference :: Interference (n.) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention..

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

Adroit :: Adroit (a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply..

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

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

Ingenuity :: Ingenuity (n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.

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

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

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..

Specification :: Specification (n.) A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct..

Unoriginated :: Unoriginated (a.) Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated..

Contrivement :: Contrivement (n.) Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.

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

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..

Invention :: Invention (n.) Thought; idea.

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..

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

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..

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