To find out something new; to devise something not before known; to contrive and produce something that did not before exist; as, to invent a new instrument of music; to invent a machine for spinning; to invent gunpowder.

To forge; to fabricate; to contrive falsely; as, to invent falsehoods.

To feign; to frame by the imagination; as, to invent the machinery of a poem.

To light on; to meet with.