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Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction.

Resembling apoplexy.

The vermiform appendix.

Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.

Having the form of water.

Having the form of a spider. Kirby.

Treelike in shape.

A big, masculine wife. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having the form of an arch; curved.

Producing or containing silver; as, argentiferous lead ore or veins.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

Bearing arms or weapons. [R.]

Same as Alquifou.

Containing or producing arsenic.

or appearance in protoplasm due to death or the use of reagents and not present during life.

Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.

One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. "Artificer of fraud." Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.

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.

The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.

To render artificial.