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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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ARTICULATOR n.
One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.
ARTICULUS n.
A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.
ARTIFACT n. 2 definitions
A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.
ARTIFICE n. 4 definitions
A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]
ARTIFICER n. 4 definitions
An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
ARTIFICIAL a. 4 definitions
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.
ARTIFICIALITY n.
The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
ARTIFICIALIZE v.
To render artificial.
ARTIFICIALLY adv. 3 definitions
In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
ARTIFICIALNESS n.
The quality of being artificial.
ARTIFICIOUS a.
Artificial. [Obs.] Johnson.
ARTILIZE v.
To make resemble. [Obs.] If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.
ARTILLERIST n.
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
ARTILLERY n. 4 definitions
Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.] And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40.
ARTILLERY WHEEL n.
A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.
ARTILLERYMAN n.
A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.
ARTIODACTYLA n.
One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.
ARTIODACTYLE n.
One of the Artiodactyla.
ARTIODACTYLOUS a.
Even-toed.
ARTISAN n. 2 definitions
One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. [Obs.]
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