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Full of invention. J. Gifford.

Capable of being invented.

Quality of being inventible.

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.

Inventive. [Obs.]

Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.

One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.

Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- In`ven*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Shak.

d worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. There take an inventory of all I have. Shak.

A woman who invents. Dryden.

Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. Blackstone.

Unfortunate. [Obs.]

Unfortunate.

Misadventure. [Obs.]

Moving. [R.] Grew.

The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county. Bouvier.

The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.

Not solvent; insolvent.

ens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering. [Obs.] "Tithes and other obventions." Spenser. Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions. Fuller.

Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] Chaucer.