inventress

[Eng. inventor; -e .] A female who invents. "Cecilia came, Inventre of the vocal frame." Dryden: Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. In-ver-, pref. [Gael.] A confluence of rivers. It is used largely as an element in place names in Scotland, as Inverne , Inverary , . In-ver-1-sim-Il-1-tüde, s . [Pref. in (2), and English verisimilitude (q.v.).] Want of verisimili. tude; improbability.