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Having the power of excogitation or fi'ftion.*—As he had 
an inventive brain, fo there never lived any man that be¬ 
lieved better thereof, and of himfelf. Raleigh. 
Reafon, remembrance, wit, inventive art, 
No nature but immortal can impart. Denham. 
INVENTOR,^ A finder-out of fomething new.-—We 
have the ftatue of your Columbus, that difcovered the 
Weft Indies, alfo the inventor of fliips: your monk, that 
was the inventor of ordnance and of gunpowder. Bacon. 
Studious they appear 
Of arts that polifh life ; inventors rare, 
Unmindful of their maker. Milton. 
A contriver ; a framer. In an ill fen fee 
In this upfhot, purpofes miftook. 
Fall’ll on th’ inventors h^ads; Skakefpeare. 
INVENTO'RIAL, adj. Belonging to an inventory. 
Johnfon. 
INVENTO'RIALLY, adv. [from inventory .] In man¬ 
ner of an inventory.—To divide inventor tally, would dizzy 
the arithmetic of memory. Skakefpeare. 
INVENTORY,/! \_inventoire, Fr. inventorium, Lat.] An 
account or catalogue of moveables.—In Perfia the daugh¬ 
ters of Eve are reckoned in the inventory of their goods 
and chattels; and it is ufual, when a man fells a bale of 
lilk, to tofs half a dozen women into the bargain. Addifon, 
I found an inventory, thus importing, 
The feveral parcels of his plate. Skakefpeare. 
Inventory, in law, a catalogue or fchedule, orderly 
made, of all the deceafed perfon’s goods and chattels at 
the time of his death, with their value appraifed by in¬ 
different perfons, which every executor or adminiftrator 
is obliged to exhibit to the ordinary at fuch time as he 
fliall appoint. By 21 Hen. VIII. c. 5. executors and ach- 
miniftrators, are to deliver in upon oath to the ordinary, 
indented inventories, one part of which is to remain with 
the ordinary, and the other part with the executor or ad¬ 
miniftrator; this is required for the benefit of the cre¬ 
ditors and legatees, that the executor or adminiftrator 
may not conceal any part of the perianal eftate from them. 
The ftatute ordains, that the inventory fliall be exhibited 
within three months after the perfon’s deceafe; yet it 
may be done afterwards 5 for the ordinary may dilpenfe 
with the time, and even with its being ever exhibited, as 
in cafes where the creditors are paid, and the will is ex¬ 
ecuted. Ray in. 470. Thefe inventories proceed from the 
civil law; and as, by the old Roman law, the heir was 
obliged to anfwer all the teftator’s debts, Juftinian or¬ 
dained, that inventories Ihould be made of the fubftance 
of the deceafed, and he ihould be no further charged. 
JuJhn. Inft. ■ 
In common parlance, Sec. the term inventory is applied 
on other and more frequent occafions; as, on the fide of 
goods by agreement between parties, accounts of the 
goods fold (fuppofing them palling with the poffeffion of 
a houfe, See.) are called inventories. So the accounts 
taken by Iheriffs, of goods levied and fold under exe¬ 
cutions, under diftrefies of the goods diftrained for rent, 
are called inventories. 
To IN'VENTORY, v. a. To regifter; to place in a ca¬ 
talogue.-—I will give out divers fchedules of my beauty: 
it fliall be inventoried, and every particle and utenfil ia- 
1)61 I’d. Skakefpeare. 
INVENTORYING,/ The aft of putting into an in¬ 
ventory. 
INVEN'TRESS, f. [invenlrice, Fr. from inventor .] A 
female that invents.—The arts, with all their retinue of 
Idler trades, hiftory and tradition tell us when they had 
their beginning; and how many of their inventors and 
inventreffes were deified. Burnet, 
Cecilia came, 
Inventrefs of the vocal frame ; 
The fweet enthufiaft, from her facred ftore, 
Enlarg’d the former narrow bounds. Dry den. 
Vql. XI. No. 744. 
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INVER, a river of Ireland, which enters into Donegal 
Bay, forming a bay at its mouth, to which it gives its 
name : feven miles weft of Donegal. 
INVER A'RITY, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Angus : four miles fouth or Forfar. 
INVERA'RY, a town and royal borough of Scotland, 
in the county of Argyle, united with Ayr, Irvine, Rothe- 
fay, and Campbel-town, to fend one member to parlia¬ 
ment; fituated on the north-weft fide of Loch Fyne, near 
which is a caftle, the feat of the duke of Argyle. It is 
the capital of Argyleflrire ; and the fea-coaft of-the parifli 
is twelve miles in length. The number'of inhabitants, m 
the, year 1792, was upwards of ohe tboufand eight hun¬ 
dred. A linen manufacture was eftabliflied here in the 
year 1748. In the year 1776, a woollen manufacture was 
fet on foot; and in the year 1754, a furnace was ere fled 
for firlelting iron by means of charcoal: 59 miles north- 
weft of Glafgow, and 104 weft-north-weft of Edinburgh. 
Lat. 56.15. N. Ion. 4. 54. W. 
INVERA'VEN, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Bailiff, near the conflux of the Avon and the Spey -. four¬ 
teen miles fouth of Elgin, and twelve fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Forres. 
INVERRER'VIE. See Bervie, vol. ii. p.422. 
INVERESK', a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Edinburgh, on the Elk : three miles north of Dalkeith’, 
and 4 eaft of Edinburgh. 
INVERKE'ITHING, a fea-port town of Scotland, and 
a royal borough, in the county of Fife, on the north fide 
of the Forth. Before the entrance of the harbour there 
is a litrge and fafe bay, which affords excellent Ihelter for 
fliips in all winds. Here his majefty’s fliips of war fome- 
times come from Leith roads, and ride at anchor, to avoid 
the winter ftorms; and merchaiU-flrips from the Medi¬ 
terranean formerly ufed to perform quarantine here. The 
harbour itfielf is a fmall bay, at the mouth of which, upon 
the weft fide, there lies a large Dutch-bu’it veil'd as a 
lazaretto; where, inftead of detaining fliips from foreign 
ports, the particular goods, in which any infection may 
be luppofed to lodge, are immediately received, aired 
under the infpeftion of a proper officer, and delivered 
within a limited time to the owners, by the exprels orders 
of the cultom-houfe. At the head of the bay is a quay 
for landing and receiving goods. The depth of water, at 
fpring-tides, is thirteen and fometimes fifteen feet: it has 
been deepened within thefe few years, and a narrow chan¬ 
nel cut farther down to admit fliips up to it: this is kept 
pretty clear by the rivulet that runs through it at low 
tide. Another quay is now building with great improve¬ 
ments to accommodate the dripping. There are here 
fometimes between forty and fifty veflels from different 
places waiting for coals, efpecially in the winter-feafop. 
Several fliips belong to this place, but none of any con- 
fiderable burthen. Some of them fail to foreign parts, 
and the reft are chiefly employed in the coal and coafting 
trade. Not far from the" town a lead-mine was difco¬ 
vered, belonging to the earl of Morton; and a herring- 
fiffiery has lately been begun on the coaft. Inverkeithing 
joins with Stirling, Dumferline, Queensferry, and Cul- 
rofs, to fend one member to parliament. In 1801, the 
population was 2228. When lately repairing the church, 
the workmen, in removing fome rubbifh lying within the 
adjoining fteeple, difcovered, and carefully dug out, the 
baptifmal ftene font which had been ufed in the popifli 
fervice, and was hid there at the time of the reformation. 
It is of the figure of a hexagon, quite entire, and a beau¬ 
tiful piece of workmanlhip. The height' of it is two 
feet, and ppon its pedeftal three feet nine inches; its 
breadth is three feet fix indies, and the diameter of 
the bafon two feet broad and one foot deep. U^on each 
of the fix fides there is the figure of an angel, with ex¬ 
panded wings; and enclofed within the extended hands 
is a coat of arms, finely wrought out, oile of which is the 
royal arms of Scotland : ’the other five are not exactly 
known, but mull have belonged to lome of the ancient 
and-noble families in the neighbourhood at the remote 
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