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

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

Quern :: Quern (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

Caveat :: Caveat (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention..

Motive :: Motive (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one..

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..

Notion :: Notion () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions..

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

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..

Inventful :: Inventful (a.) Full of invention.

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..

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