transitive. To contrive, devise, invent; to compose (a song, music, etc.); to discover (a scientific fact, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To form (an intention, design, etc.) in the mind or (in early use) the heart; to plan, devise, or formulate.

To invent, contrive. Also with out, up.

To concoct, contrive, prepare, bring about, cause: spec. designs, projects, productions of the intellect.

To think or conceive of, devise, contrive, by special inspiration or extraordinary sagacity. Obsolete.

transitive. To discover by attention, scrutiny, study, etc.; to solve, explain. Also: to devise, invent. Obsolete.

transitive. To find out or discover (something) by close inquiry, study, scrutiny, etc.; to discover (a fact, some information, etc.). Also in early…

transitive. To contrive, invent; = sense 11. Obsolete.

To frame or fashion (something immaterial); to contrive, devise, invent. Obsolete except as in 4.

transitive to invent.

transitive. To devise, contrive, invent (especially something false or bad). Obsolete. (The quots. 1555 1599 appear to connect this with branch II.)

transitive. To plan, devise, think up; to imagine or envisage in or as in a dream. Cf. to dream up at phrasal verbs.

To find out in the way of original contrivance; to create, produce, or construct by original thought or ingenuity; to devise first, originate (a…

transitive. figurative. To originate, bring into existence; to be the author of (a doctrine, statement, etc.).

figurative. To evolve, produce, contrive, or devise, in a manner suggestive of spinning.

figurative (from 1.) To make, devise, produce.

Cf. conceive, v. I. transitive. To form (a plan or design) in one's mind; to devise. Obsolete.

transitive. In extended use: to mould to; to fashion or convert into. Obsolete.

To engender, produce, bring forth, give rise to; spec. of tornadoes or the like. Also with forth and out.

transitive. To prepare, develop, or elaborate (something); to devise, concoct. In later use frequently with somewhat negative connotations…

= infant, v. (In quot. 1619 figurative.)

transitive. To concoct, invent.

transitive. To form a notion of; to devise or originate by process of thought.

transitive. To compose, compile. To concoct, invent, fabricate (a story, lie, fictional scene or character, etc.); to compose (verses, etc.)…

To evolve or devise by mental effort; to express at length.

transitive. To prepare, develop, or elaborate (something); to devise, concoct. In later use frequently with somewhat negative connotations…

To produce by a stroke of invention (a plan, scheme, fashion, etc.).

transitive. figurative. To profess to be the author or originator of. Obsolete.

transitive. To form an idea of; to use one's ingenuity to devise; to invent, contrive, or produce by thinking.

U.S. colloquial. transitive. to noodle out: to figure out, work out; to devise. to noodle up: to think up (rare).

transitive. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). colloquial. With up. To concoct, invent, or fabricate (something spurious or false).