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Articularly (ärtĭk�lẽrl�), adv. In an articular or an articulate manner.
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Articulata (ärtĭk�lātȧ), n. pl. [Neut. pl. from L. articulatus furnished with joints, distinct, p. p. of articulare. See , v.] (Zoöl.) 1. One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.
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☞ It includes those Invertebrata having the body composed of a series of ringlike segments (arthromeres). By some writers, the unsegmented worms (helminths) have also been included; by others it is restricted to the Arthropoda. It corresponds nearly with the Annulosa of some authors. The chief subdivisions are Arthropoda (Insects, Myriapoda, Malacopoda, Arachnida, Pycnogonida, Crustacea); and Anarthropoda, including the Annelida and allied forms.
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2. One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge.
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3. A subdivision of the Crinoidea.
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Articulate (�), a. [L. articulatus. See .] 1. Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic] Bacon.
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2. Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.
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3. Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words.
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Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.
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Articulate, n. (Zoöl.) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
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Articulate (�), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Articulated (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Articulating (�)]. 1. To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.
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2. To treat or make terms. [Obs.] Shak.
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3. To join or be connected by articulation.
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Articulate, v. t. 1. To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.
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2. To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify. [Obs.]
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3. To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language. “To articulate a word.” Ray.
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4. To express distinctly; to give utterance to.
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Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church. Bibliotheca Sacra.
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To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. Carlyle.
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Articulated (�), a. 1. United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.
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2. Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced.
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Articulately (�), adv. 1. After the manner, or in the form, of a joint.
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2. Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. Paley.
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I had articulately set down in writing our points. Fuller.
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3. With distinct utterance of the separate sounds.
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Articulateness, n. Quality of being articulate.
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articulatio n. [Latin.] (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton especially if the articulatio allows motion.
Syn. -- joint, articulation.
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Articulation (�), n. [Cf. F. articulation, fr. L. articulatio.] 1. (Anat.) A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.
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☞ Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united (synarthrosis), or slightly movable, when they are united intervening substance (amphiarthrosis), or they may be more or less freely movable, when the articular surfaces are covered with synovial membranes, as in complete joints (diarthrosis). The last (diarthrosis) includes hinge joints, admitting motion in one plane only (ginglymus), ball and socket joints (enarthrosis), pivot and rotation joints, etc.
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2. (Bot.) (a) The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods. (b) One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize. (c) One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley.
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3. The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.
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4. The state of being jointed; connection of parts. [R.]
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That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge.
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5. The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.
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6. A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.
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Articulative (�), a. Of or pertaining to articulation. Bush.
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Articulator (�), n. One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.
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Articulus (�) n.; pl. Articuli (�). [L. See .] (Zoöl.) A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.
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Artifact (?), n. [L. ars, artis, art + facere, factum, to make.] 1. (Archæol.) A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.
Syn. -- artefact.
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2. Any product of human workmanship; -- applied both to objects made for practical purposes as well as works of art. It is contrasted to natural object, i.e. anything produced by natural forces without the intervention of man.
Syn. -- artefact.
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3. (Biol.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
Syn. -- artefact.
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4. (Technology) an object, oservation, phenomenon, or result arising from hidden or unexpected causes extraneous to the subject of a study, and therefore spurious and having potential to lead one to an erroneous conclusion, or to invalidate the study. In experimental science, artifacts may arise due to inadvertant contamination of equipment, faulty experimental design or faulty analysis, or unexpected effects of agencies not known to affect the system under study.
Syn. -- artefact.
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artifactual adj. 1. 1 same as .
Syn. -- artefactual
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Artifice (�), n. [L. artificium, fr. artifex artificer; ars, artis, art + facere to make: cf. F. artifice.] 1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]
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2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
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The material universe . . . in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth.
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3. Artful or skillful contrivance.
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His [Congreve's] plots were constructed without much artifice. Craik.
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4. Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
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Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry. Macaulay.
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Artificer (�), n. [Cf. F. artificier, fr. LL. artificiarius.] 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
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2. One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. “Artificer of fraud.” Milton.
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The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.
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3. A cunning or artful fellow. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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4. (Mil.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
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Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See .
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Artificial (�), a. [L. artificialis, fr. artificium: cf. F. artificiel. See .] 1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
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Artificial strife
Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.
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2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. “Artificial tears.” Shak.
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3. Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] Shak.
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4. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses. Gibbon.
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Coloq. Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson. -- Coloq. Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, “the artificial system” in botany, which is the same as the Linnæan system. -- Coloq. Artificial horizon . See under . Coloq. Artificial light , any light other than that which proceeds from the heavenly bodies. -- Coloq. Artificial lines , lines on a sector or scale, so contrived as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc. -- Coloq. Artificial numbers , logarithms. -- Coloq. Artificial person (Law). See under . -- Coloq. Artificial sines , Coloq. tangents , etc., the same as logarithms of the natural sines, tangents, etc. Hutton.
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Artificiality (�), n. The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
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Artificialize (�), v. t. To render artificial.
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Artificially, adv. 1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
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2. Ingeniously; skillfully. [Obs.]
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The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson.
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3. Craftily; artfully. [Obs.]
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Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
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Artificialness, n. The quality of being artificial.
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Artificious (�), a. [L. artificiosus.] Artificial. [Obs.] Johnson.
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Artilize (�), v. t. To make resemble. [Obs.]
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If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.
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Artillerist (�), n. A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
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Artillery (�), n. [OE. artilrie, OF. artillerie, arteillerie, fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. artillerie great guns, ordnance; OF. artillier to work artifice, to fortify, to arm, prob. from L. ars, artis, skill in joining something, art. See .] 1. Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.]
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And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40.
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2. Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.
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☞ The word is sometimes used in a more extended sense, including the powder, cartridges, matches, utensils, machines of all kinds, and horses, that belong to a train of artillery.
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3. The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.
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4. The science of artillery or gunnery. Campbell.
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Coloq. Artillery park , or Coloq. Park of artillery . (a) A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) The place where the artillery is encamped or collected. -- Coloq. Artillery train , or Coloq. Train of artillery , a number of pieces of ordnance mounted on carriages, with all their furniture, ready for marching.
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Artilleryman (�), n. A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.
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Artillery wheel. A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.
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artiodactyl n. 1. placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot; a member of the .
Syn. -- artiodactyle, even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl mammal
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artiodactyl adj. of, pertaining to, or belonging to the order Artiodactyla.
Syn. -- artiodactylous, even-toed.
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Artiodactyla (�), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � even + � finger or toe.] (Zoöl.) One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla.
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Artiodactyle (�), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Artiodactyla.
Syn. -- artiodactyl, even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl mammal.
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Artiodactylous (�), a. (Zoöl.) Even-toed.
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Artisan (?; 277), n. [F. artisan, fr. L. artitus skilled in arts, fr. ars, artis, art: cf. It. artigiano. See , n.] 1. One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. [Obs.]
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2. One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.
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This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. Hume.
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Syn. -- Artificer; artist. -- , , . An artist is one who is skilled in some one of the fine arts; an artisan is one who exercises any mechanical employment. A portrait painter is an artist; a sign painter is an artisan, although he may have the taste and skill of an artist. The occupation of the former requires a fine taste and delicate manipulation; that of the latter demands only an ordinary degree of contrivance and imitative power. An artificer is one who requires power of contrivance and adaptation in the exercise of his profession. The word suggest neither the idea of mechanical conformity to rule which attaches to the term artisan, nor the ideas of refinement and of peculiar skill which belong to the term artist.
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Artist (�), n. [F. artiste, LL. artista, fr. L. ars. See , n., and cf. .] 1. One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. [Obs.]
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How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast,
Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller.
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2. One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
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☞ The term is particularly applied to painters, sculptors, musicians, engravers, and architects. Elmes.
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3. One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation. Pope.
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4. An artful person; a schemer. [Obs.]
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Syn. -- Artisan. See .
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Artiste (�), n. [F. See .] One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.
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☞ This term should not be confounded with the English word artist.
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{ Artistic, Artistical (�), } a. [Cf. F. artistique, fr. artiste.] Of or pertaining to art or to artists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill. -- Artistically, adv.
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Artistry (�), n. 1. Works of art collectively.
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2. Artistic effect or quality. Southey.
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3. Artistic pursuits; artistic ability. The Academy.
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Artless (�), a. 1. Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
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Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden.
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2. Contrived without skill or art; inartistic. [R.]
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Artless and massy pillars. T. Warton.
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3. Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.
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They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus.
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O, how unlike the complex works of man,
Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! Cowper.
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Syn. -- Simple; unaffected; sincere; undesigning; guileless; unsophisticated; open; frank; candid.
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Artlessly, adv. In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope.
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Artlessness, n. The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.
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Artly, adv. With art or skill. [Obs.]
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{ Artocarpeous (�), Artocarpous (�), } a. [Gr. � bread + � fruit.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus.
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Artotype (�), n. [Art + type.] A kind of autotype.
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Artotyrite (�), n. [LL. Artotyritae, pl., fr. Gr. � bread + � cheese.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]
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Artow (�). A contraction of art thou. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Artsman (�), n. A man skilled in an art or in arts. [Obs.] Bacon.
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artsy adj. 1. same as .
Syn. -- arty.
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2. same as .
Syn. -- artsy-craftsy.
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artsy-craftsy adj. 1. 1 pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming.
Syn. -- arty-crafty, artsy, arty.
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Art union (�). An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists.
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artwork n. (Publishing) photographs, illustrations, or other visual representations other than the text, in a printed publication.
Syn. -- art, graphics, nontextual matter.
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arty adj. 1. showily imitative of art or artists.
Syn. -- artsy
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arty-crafty adj. 1. pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming
Syn. -- artsy-craftsy
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arugula n. 1. an erect European annual (Eruca vesicaria sativa) of the mustard family, often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
Syn. -- rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, Eruca sativa.
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arui n. 1. a wild sheep (Ammotragus lervia) of northern Africa, having a thick mane on the throat, chest, and forelegs; -- also called the aoudad and Barbary sheep.
Syn. -- aoudad, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep.
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Arum, n. [L. arum, aros, Gr. �.] A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example.
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Our common arums -- the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.
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☞ The American “Jack in the pulpit” is now separated from the genus Arum.
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Arundelian (�), a. Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.
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Arundiferous, a. [L. arundifer; arundo reed + ferre to bear.] Producing reeds or canes.
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Arundinaceous (�), a. [L. arundinaceus, fr. arundo reed.] Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.
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Arundineous (�), a. [L. arundineus, fr. arundo reed.] Abounding with reeds; reedy.
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Aruru n. (Akkadian mythology) mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag (Mama; Nintu).
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Aruspex (�), n.; pl. Aruspices (�). [L. aruspex or haruspex.] One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.
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Aruspice (�), n. [L. aruspex: cf. F. aruspice. Cf. , .] A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as . [Written also haruspice.]
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Aruspicy (�), n. [L. aruspicium, haruspicium.] Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.
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Arval (�), n. [W. arwyl funeral; ar over + wylo to weep, or cf. arföl; Icel. arfr inheritance + Sw. öl ale. Cf. .] A funeral feast. [North of Eng.] Grose.
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Arvicola n. a genus of mice in some classifications considered synonymous with Microtus.
Syn. -- genus Arvicola.
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Arvicole (�), n. [L. arvum field + colere to inhabit.] (Zoöl.) A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.
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Aryan (äry�n or ărĭ�n), n. [Skr. ārya excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran, and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this people, at least in Asia.] 1. One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.
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