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What the Greeks expressed by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture. J. C. Shairp. The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture. Tylor. Culture fluid, a fluid in which the germs of microscopic organisms are made t…

The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

es, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.

osed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

has lost it. [See Illust. of Dactylology.] Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.

of jurors, witnesses, etc. In default of, in case of failure or lack of. Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in default of the real ones. Arbuthnot. -- To suffer a default (Law), to permit an action to be called without appearing to answer.

A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.

e whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river. Gibbon.

A destroyer. [R.] Fire, the destructive and the artificial death of things. Boyle.

talloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.

A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.

A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.

Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show. That eye which glances through all disguises. D. Webster.

An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

and train for use, as a horse or other animal. To dress up or out, to dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. "You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius Cæsar." Addison. -- To dress a ship (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and sett…

An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.

OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.