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Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest;
public; conspicuous. |
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Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring
some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under
3d Letter. |
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Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by
official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal
of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent
medicines. |
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Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or
branch; as, a patent leaf. |
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A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document,
issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some
person or party. |
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A writing securing to an invention. |
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A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands. |
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The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence,
figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent. |
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To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to
secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent
public lands. |
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