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In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event. Anyhow, it must be acknowledged to be not a simple selforiginated error. J. H. Newman. Anyhow, the languages of the two nations were closely allied. E. A. Freeman.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

The act of arranging knowledge into a system.

Relating to the systemizing of knowledge.

he bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. They will not arraign you for want of knowledge. Dryden. It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor.

Money or other valuable thing given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest.

eriment. To arrive at, or attain to. When he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton.

the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. Blest with each grace of nature and of art. Pope.

n artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

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

One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W.

a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.

e men meet danger with assurance. Knolles. Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. Locke.

The science or knowledge of the stars, esp. the fixed stars. Bouvier.

One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.

Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies. Derham.

Without technical or artistic knowledge. Difficult to convey to the atechnic reader. Etching & Engr.

To adhere; to be attached. The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. Brougham.

To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain. [Obs.] Not well attaining his meaning. Fuller.

ed to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.