The inventress of brooms.

Inventress of the Woof, fair LINA flings The flying shuttle through the dancing strings; [For thee the Bear.

So St. Cecilia is called in Dryden's Ode, "Inventress of the vocal frame.

Report, in most things superfluous, in many things altogether an inventress, hath been but too modest in the delivery of John's true stories.

At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.

At last, divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.

8.An other form of verse, common to the Greeks and Romans, which has sometimes been imitatedor, rather, which some writers have attempted to imitatein English, is the line or stanza called Sapphic, from the inventress, Sappho, a Greek poetess.

At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from the sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.

She is the goddess of speech and eloquence, patroness of the arts and sciences, and inventress of the Sanskrit language.

POLYHYMNIA, one of the nine MUSES (q. v.); she is represented as in a pensive mood, with her forefinger on her mouth; she was the inventress of the lyre and the mother of Orpheus.