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apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley.

Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.

One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. Bacon.

Openly; evidently.

Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.

A (patented) alloy of aluminium and silver, with a density of about 2.9.

The rank or patent of a baronet.

A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose. [Eng.] Apostolical brief, a letter of the pope written on fine parchment in modern characters, subscribed by the secretary of briefs, dated "a die Nativitatis," i. e., "fr…

To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)

A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.

A revolver made according to a system using a 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.

c service. Herbert was first commissioner of the Admiralty. Macaulay. The commissioner of patents, the commissioner of the land office, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subotdinates of the secretary of the interior. Bartlett. Commissioner of deeds, an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, ack…

an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass.

y hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides. Anti-Jacobin. Patent insides or outside, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and loca…

One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office. [U.S.]

ior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department. -- Secretary of the Interi…

icular purposes, and hence closed or sealed on the outside; -- distinguished from letters patent. Burrill. -- Letters of orders (Eccl.), a document duly signed and sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has regularly ordained a certain person as priest, deacon, etc. -- Letters patent, overt, or open (Eng. L…