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A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.

One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

Cunning; artifice; craft. Madam, I swear I use no art at all. Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. Crabb.

rticles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a common criminal case. -- Articles of war, rules and regulations, fixed by law, for the better government of the army. -- In the article of death Etym: [L. in articulo mortis], at the moment of…

The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

ho sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office. Whence to his Son, The assessor of his throne, he thus began. Milton. With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment. I. Taylor.

The office or function of an assessor.

An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.

Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge. While I descend . . . to my associate powers. Milton.

The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.

As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.

To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.

a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.

The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.

The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak.

A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

The office or function of auditor.

The office of an augur. Merivale.