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Invent
INVENT', v.t. [L. invenio, inventum; in and venio, to come; literally, to come to, to fall on, to meet, Eng. to find.]
1. To find out something new; to devise something not before known; to contrive and produce something that did not before exist; as, to invent a new instrument of music; to invent a machine for spinning; to invent gunpowder. [See Invention.]
2. To forge; to fabricate; to contrive falsely; as, to invent falsehoods.
3. To feign; to frame by the imagination; as, to invent the machinery of a poem.
4. To light on; to meet with. [This is the literal sense, but not now used.]
invent appears in definitions for these words:
Abacus Achromatic Acutiator Adroit Alcaics Algarot Algaroth Alphonsin Amplify Android Archilochian Argue Arguing Argumentation Artificer Artificial Backstaff Barren Barrenness Basset Bergamot Binary Blow-pipe Bomb Budget Calorimeter Canon Carding-machine Centaur Ceres Chapless Characteristic Cipher Cissoid Coined Coiner Coining Commentitious Compose Composition Conceivable Conchoid Construct Contribute Contrivable Contrivance Contrive Contrived Contrivement Contriver Cotton-gin Cotton-shrub Crotchet Cycle Design Device Deviceful Devisable Devise Deviser Devising Dexterity Dextrous Digamma Discover Divine Emblematist Eter Excogitate Excogitation Exigent Fable Fabled Fabricate Fabricated Fabulist Fabulize Fabulous Faculty Fail Falsifier Father Fecundity Feign Feigned Feigner Feigning Fertile Fertility Fiction Figment Find Flourish Form Frame Framing Genius Georama Gin Gouland Gunstone Handsome Heaven Hermetic Humor Idiotism Incendiary Ingenious Ingeniousness Ingenuity Invent Inventer Invention Inventive Inventor Inventorially Inventoried Inventory Inventress Journal Leonine Lithography Lithotritor Logarithm Magic Masoretic Match Mint Minter Mintmaster Miss Mithridate Mithridatic Monteth Motion New Newness Nostrum Novitious Opodeldoc Oratory Orrery Parenthesis Paten Pave Pederero Pinchbeck Poet Pregnancy Pretension Property Quern Rack Raise Raised Refiner Relish Remedy Romancer Romancing Schaalstein Scratch Sharp Start Studious Tactics Telegraph Tower Uninvented Unknown Vacuum Vent Vernier Versification Violin Window Wit Wit-craft Witty
Abacus Achromatic Acutiator Adroit Alcaics Algarot Algaroth Alphonsin Amplify Android Archilochian Argue Arguing Argumentation Artificer Artificial Backstaff Barren Barrenness Basset Bergamot Binary Blow-pipe Bomb Budget Calorimeter Canon Carding-machine Centaur Ceres Chapless Characteristic Cipher Cissoid Coined Coiner Coining Commentitious Compose Composition Conceivable Conchoid Construct Contribute Contrivable Contrivance Contrive Contrived Contrivement Contriver Cotton-gin Cotton-shrub Crotchet Cycle Design Device Deviceful Devisable Devise Deviser Devising Dexterity Dextrous Digamma Discover Divine Emblematist Eter Excogitate Excogitation Exigent Fable Fabled Fabricate Fabricated Fabulist Fabulize Fabulous Faculty Fail Falsifier Father Fecundity Feign Feigned Feigner Feigning Fertile Fertility Fiction Figment Find Flourish Form Frame Framing Genius Georama Gin Gouland Gunstone Handsome Heaven Hermetic Humor Idiotism Incendiary Ingenious Ingeniousness Ingenuity Invent Inventer Invention Inventive Inventor Inventorially Inventoried Inventory Inventress Journal Leonine Lithography Lithotritor Logarithm Magic Masoretic Match Mint Minter Mintmaster Miss Mithridate Mithridatic Monteth Motion New Newness Nostrum Novitious Opodeldoc Oratory Orrery Parenthesis Paten Pave Pederero Pinchbeck Poet Pregnancy Pretension Property Quern Rack Raise Raised Refiner Relish Remedy Romancer Romancing Schaalstein Scratch Sharp Start Studious Tactics Telegraph Tower Uninvented Unknown Vacuum Vent Vernier Versification Violin Window Wit Wit-craft Witty
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