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to meet; to find. [Obs.] And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. Spenser.

One who invents.

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.

ted 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.

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

lties; 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. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

h 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.

A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

An inventory; a record. [Obs.] Knowles.

To stop; to fix or rest. My invention . . . anchors on Isabel. Shak.

The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson.