English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Artifice
(n.)
Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.
[Now the usual meaning.]
Artificer
(n.)
An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a
silversmith.
Artificer
(n.)
One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or
framer.
Artificer
(n.)
A cunning or artful fellow.
Artificer
(n.)
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.;
also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military
laboratory.
Artificial
(a.)
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.
Artificial
(a.)
Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
Artificial
(a.)
Artful; cunning; crafty.
Artificial
(a.)
Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth;
as, artificial grasses.
Artificiality
(n.)
The quality or appearance of being artificial; that
which is artificial.
Artificialize
(v. t.)
To render artificial.
Artificially
(adv.)
In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and
contrivance, not by nature.
Artificially
(adv.)
Ingeniously; skillfully.
Artificially
(adv.)
Craftily; artfully.
Artificialness
(n.)
The quality of being artificial.
Artificious
(a.)
Artificial.
Artilize
(v. t.)
To make resemble.
Artillerist
(n.)
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an
artilleryman.
Artillery
(n.)
The science of artillery or gunnery.
Artillery
(n.)
The men and officers of that branch of the army to which
the care and management of artillery are confided.