Patent

·adj A writing securing to an Invention.

II. Patent ·adj A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

III. Patent ·adj Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

IV. Patent ·adj Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.

V. Patent ·adj The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.

VI. Patent ·adj Open to public perusal;

— said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. ·see Letters patent, under 3d Letter.

VII. Patent ·vt To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

VIII. Patent ·adj A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.

IX. Patent ·adj Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.