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<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; <as>as, this fable was the <ex>invention</ex> of Esop; that falsehood was her own <ex>invention</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>We entered by the drawbridge, which has an <b>invention</b> to let one fall if not premonished. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Thought; idea.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.</def>

<blockquote>Filling their hearers With strange <b>invention</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; <as>as, a man of <ex>invention</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>They lay no less than a want of <b>invention</b> to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<cs><col>Invention of the cross</col> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld>, <cd>a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena.</cd></cs>

<h1>Inventious</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*ven"tious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Inventive.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Inventive</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*vent"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>inventif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; <as>as, an <ex>inventive</ex> head or genius</as>.</def> <i>Dryden</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>In*vent"ive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>In*vent"ive*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Inventor</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*vent"or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.: cf. F. <ets>inventeur</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.</def>

<h1>Inventorial</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In`ven*to"ri*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to an inventory.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>In`ven*to"ri*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Inventory</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In"ven*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Inventories</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>inventarium</ets>: cf. LL. <ets>inventorium</ets>, F. <ets>inventaire</ets>, OF. also <ets>inventoire</ets>. See <er>Invent</er>.]</ety> <def>An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business.</def>

<blockquote>There take an <b>inventory</b> of all I have. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- List; register; schedule; catalogue. See <er>List</er>.</syn>

<h1>Inventory</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In"ven*to*ry</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Inventoried</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Inventorying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>inventorier</ets>.]</ety> <def>To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; <as>as, a merchant <ex>inventories</ex> his stock</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I will give out divers schedules of my beauty; it shall be <b>inventoried</b>, and every particle and utensil labeled. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Inventress</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*vent"ress</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>inventrix</ets>, F. <ets>inventrice</ets>.]</ety> <def>A woman who invents.</def>