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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..

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

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..

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

Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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..

Unoriginated :: Unoriginated (a.) Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated..

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..

Design :: Design (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole..

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

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