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

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.

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..

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

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..

Genius :: Genius (n.) Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius..

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

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

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

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..

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.) 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..

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 invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole..

Budget :: Budget (n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions..

Fertility :: Fertility (n.) The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination..

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

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

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..

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