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One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. [Obs.] How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller.

One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

Of or pertaining to art or to artists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill. -- Ar*tis"tic*al*ly, adv.

Works of art collectively.

Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden.

In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope.

The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.

With art or skill. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus.

A kind of autotype.

bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

A contraction of art thou. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A man skilled in an art or in arts. [Obs.] Bacon.

on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.

Producing reeds or canes.

Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.

Abounding with reeds; reedy.

omans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.

A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex. [Written also haruspice.]