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

ourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.

An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.

An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.

neral. -- Red chalk, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.

sons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an…

One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

inations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work.

An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.

operties. -- Lemnian reddle, a reddle of firm consistence and deep red color; -- used by artificers in coloring.

An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.

An artificer. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. An art quite lost with our mechanics. Sir T. Browne.…

ing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous. Adrian mortally envied poets, painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel. Bacon.

An artificer; a workman. [Obs.] "The almighty opificer." Bentley.

execution; technique. They illustrate the method of nature, not the technic of a manlike Artificer. Tyndall.

A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. [U.S.] Burrill.

Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.