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ence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.

or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He [was] too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order. Dryden.

A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a con…

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

To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify. [Obs.]

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

A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex. [Written also haruspice.]

The language of the original Aryans. [Written also Arian.]

la asafoetida) of Persia and the East India. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [Written also assafoetida.]

otic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty. [Written also Asmonæan.]

he brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.

A kind of writ or real action.

A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.

Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

Adamant. [Obs.] Written in the table of athamaunt. Chaucer.