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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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539 words match “SKILL”

ARTIFICIAL a.
Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.
ARTIFICIALLY adv. 2 definitions
In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
ARTILLERIST n.
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
ARTIST n.
One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation. Pope.
ARTISTIC; ARTISTICAL a.
de in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill. -- Ar*tis"tic*al*ly, adv.
ARTLESS a. 2 definitions
Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden.
ARTLESSLY adv.
In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope.
ARTLY adv.
With art or skill. [Obs.]
ARTSMAN n.
A man skilled in an art or in arts. [Obs.] Bacon.
ATHLETE n.
One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.
ATTEND v.
eed to; to regard. [Obs.] The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
AU FAIT n.
Expert; skillful; well instructed.
AURIST n.
One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear.
AVOCATION n.
secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury.
AWKWARD a.
Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy. Dryden.
BACKGAMMON n.
A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. Backgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made i…
BACTERIOLOGIST n.
One skilled in bacteriology.
BACTERIOSCOPIST n.
One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.
BADLY adv.
In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.
BEFOREHAND adv.
of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime. They may be taught beforehand the skill of speaking. Hooker.
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