Invent

·vt To come or light upon; to Meet; to Find.

II. Invent ·vt To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to Forge;

— in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

III. Invent ·vt To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to Devise; to contrive or produce for the first time;

— applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.