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.