Invent

(v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

Invent - Other Definitions

(v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invent