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ived 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.

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

The quality of being artificial.

Not artificial; not made or elaborated by art; natural; simple; artless; as, an inartificial argument; an inartificial character. -- In*ar`ti*fi"cial*ly, adv. -- In*ar`ti*fi"cial*ness, n.

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke.

Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. Addison.

An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs. Thackeray.

A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

ale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

s naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.