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(1):

(n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

(2):

(n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.

(3):

(n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Caveat'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/caveat.html. 1828.
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