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Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant."…

The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley.

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

One skilled in agrostology.

Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aërial navigation.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

Microörganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it. Sternberg.

One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

To busy; to keep at work; to ply. [Obs.] She was skillful in applying his "humors." Sir P. Sidney.

A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

The art or skill of an archer.

The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.

A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

One skilled in arithmetic.

One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. Cussans.

f navigation. Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill. J. F. Genung.

Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [Archaic] "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton.

In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.