Erecto-patent :: Erecto-patent (a.) Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading..

Erecto-patent :: Erecto-patent (a.) Standing partially spread and erect; -- said of the wings of certain insects.

Patent :: Patent (a.) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

Patent :: Patent (a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter..

Patent :: Patent (a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines..

Patent :: Patent (a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf..

Patent :: Patent (a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party..

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

Patent :: Patent (a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

Patent :: Patent (a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent..

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..

Patent-hammered :: Patent-hammered (a.) Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

Patentable :: Patentable (a.) Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.

Patented :: Patented (imp. & p. p.) of Paten.

Patentee :: Patentee (n.) One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent..

Patenting :: Patenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paten.

Patently :: Patently (adv.) Openly; evidently.

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