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ally appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. Blackstone.

The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.

In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.

The quality or state of being technical; technicality.

Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.

Fond of the arts. [R.]

Polytechnic.

Of or pertaining to fireworks, or the art of forming them. Pyrotechnical sponge. See under Sponge.

. Etym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

o the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

Without technical or artistic knowledge. Difficult to convey to the atechnic reader. Etching & Engr.

music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. Aria di bravura ( Etym: [It.], a florid air demanding brilliant execution.

To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical termes; to talk with an affectation of learning. The doctor here, When he discqurseth of dissection, Of vena cava and of vena porta, The meseræum and the mesentericum, What does he else but cant. B. Jonson That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting hangu…

Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. - Cant"ing*ly, adv. -- Cant"ing*ness, n. Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear thre…

The technical name for urea.

The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.

Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill. He pulled out a thirty-pound note and bid me change it. Goldsmith. To change a horse, or To change hand (Man.), to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from t…

The commonalty; the common people. [Obs.] Chaucer. In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the "commune", the general mass of the inhabitants, against the "prudhommes" or "wiser" few. J. R. Green.

ized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists.

A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution. Wharton.