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Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

ary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

ding to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.

one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change. Artificial conversion of water into ice. Bacon. The conversion of the aliment into fat. Arbuthnot.

Dishonest management, or artifice. [Obs.] the very jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. Hakewill.

One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. [Obs.] Shak.

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange.

e right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.

A plastic operation on the pupil, as for forming an artificial pupil. -- Cor`e*plas"tic (-plas"tik), a.

Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.

corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry. Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )

corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragile articles, as bottles.

An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.

The art of measuring the world or the universe. Blount.

Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art. [Obs.] "Art of numbers cossical." Digges (1579).

e, HO.C6H4.C2H2.CO2H, obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, etc., and also produced artifically.

, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially.

That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart. Thou drawest a counterfeit Best in all Athens. Shak. Even Nature's self envied the same, And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame The thing itself. Spenser.

sons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an…