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e ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice. Hermann.

The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. Wharton.

rt of navigation. Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill. J. F. Genung.

To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.

heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

r pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France. Artesian wells, wells made by boring into the earth till the instrument reaches water, which, from internal pressure, flows spontaneously like a fountain. They are usually of small diameter and often of great depth.

Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [Archaic] "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton.

An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.

t odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder.

of an articulated appendage. Articles of Confederation, the compact which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same of…

Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.

One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.

Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.

Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. Paley. I had articulately set down in writing our points. Fuller.

The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.

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.

In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.

ome mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic. This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. Hume.

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.