A person who or thing which finds something (in various senses of the verb). A person who contrives or invents; an inventor, deviser. Obsolete.

figurative. An inventor; a deliberate or artful fabricator. Cf. coin, v.1 5.

In extended use: a person who presides over the coining of new ideas, words, etc.; a person skilled in such innovation. Obsolete.

A female architect.

A person who manufactures something false or counterfeit; a deliberate fabricator. Also with modifying word, indicating the thing fabricated. Cf. c…

One who produces an invention; an inventor.

transferred and figurative. Cf. architect, n. 2 3.

The deviser or inventor of an institution, system, machine, etc.

One who designs and frames any complex structure; esp. the Creator; one who arranges elementary materials on a comprehensive plan.