English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Artless
(a.)
Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized
by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as,
an artless mind; an artless tale.
Artlessly
(adv.)
In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile;
unaffectedly.
Artlessness
(n.)
The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile;
simplicity; sincerity.
Artly
(adv.)
With art or skill.
Artocarpeous
(a.)
Alt. of Artocarpous
Artocarpous
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus
Artocarpus.
Artotype
(n.)
A kind of autotype.
Artotyrite
(n.)
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.]
A contraction of art thou.
Artsman
(n.)
A man skilled in an art or in arts.
Arum
(n.)
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.
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.
Arundiferous
(a.)
Producing reeds or canes.
Arundinaceous
(a.)
Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or
cane.
Arundineous
(a.)
Abounding with reeds; reedy.
Aruspex
(n.)
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.
Aruspice
(n.)
A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex.
Aruspices
(pl. )
of Aruspex
Aruspicy
(n.)
Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims
slain sacrifice.
Arval
(n.)
A funeral feast.