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Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
A cunning or artful fellow.
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
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.
Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
Artful; cunning; crafty.
Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
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.
Ingeniously; skillfully.
Craftily; artfully.
The quality of being artificial.
Artificial.
To make resemble.
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
The science of artillery or gunnery.
The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.