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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.

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

One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. "Artificer of fraud." Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.

through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

e ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

c pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.

e suitable for the formation of the arc at the tip; - - called also, from the name of the inventor, Jablockoff candle. -- Excommunication by inch of candle, a form of excommunication in which the offender is allowed time to repent only while a candle burns. -- Not worth the candle, not worth the cost or trouble. --…

, classed according to their subjects. Syn. -- List; roll; index; schedule; enumeration; inventory. See List.

An inventor or maker, as of words. Camden.

patented revolving cylinder, holding six cartridges, patented by Samuel Colt, an American inventor, in 1835. With various modifications, it has for many years been the standard for the United States army.

t colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.

sually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety improved by one Gavatt is known as the Gavatt level.

A writer or inventor of emblems. Sir T. Browne.

A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. [Obs.] Shak.

To commemorate by an epitaph. [R.] Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters. G. Harvey.

image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; -- called also, from the name of the inventor, Ramsden's eyepiece. -- terrestrial, or Erecting eyepiece, an eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object v…

A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.