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Woulfe Bottle :: Woulfe bottle (n.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist..

Mimeograph :: Mimeograph (n.) An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.

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..

Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor..

Huyghenian :: Huyghenian (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope..

Deviceful :: Deviceful (a.) Full of devices; inventive.

Phonography :: Phonography (n.) A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters..

Mint :: Mint (v. t.) To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

Invention :: Invention (n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention..

Kaleidophone :: Kaleidophone () An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for making visible, in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob, the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations..

Gunter''s Scale :: Gunter's scale () A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant..

Design :: Design (n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral..

Boston :: Boston (n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war..

Inventress :: Inventress (n.) A woman who invents.

Allopathy :: Allopathy (n.) That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy..

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..

Inventive :: Inventive (a.) Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius..

Contrivance :: Contrivance (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement..

Construct :: Construct (v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics..

Emblematist :: Emblematist (n.) A writer or inventor of emblems.

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