Part 665

<h1>Articulator</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar*tic"u*la`tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, articulates; as: <sd>(a)</sd> One who enunciates distinctly. <sd>(b)</sd> One who prepares and mounts skeletons. <sd>(c)</sd> An instrument to cure stammering.</def>

<h1>Articulus</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar*tic"u*lus</hw> <tt>(#)</tt> <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Articuli</plw> (#)</plu>. <ety>[L. See <er>Article</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.</def>

<h1>Artifice</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar"ti*fice</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>artificium</ets>, fr. <ets>artifex</ets> artificer; <ets>ars</ets>, <ets>artis</ets>, art + <ets>facere</ets> to make: cf. F. <ets>artifice</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A handicraft; a trade; art of making.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.</def>

<blockquote>The material universe.. in the <b>artifice</b> of God, the <b>artifice</b> of the best Mechanist. <i>Cudworth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Artful or skillful contrivance.</def>

<blockquote>His [Congreve's] plots were constructed without much <b>artifice</b>. <i>Craik.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. <note>[Now the usual meaning.]</note></def>

<blockquote>Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous <b>artifices</b> for the purpose of averting inquiry. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Artificer</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar*tif"i*cer</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>artificier</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>artificiarius</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.</def> "<i>Artificer</i> of fraud."

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>The great <b>Artificer</b> of all that moves. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A cunning or artful fellow.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See <er>Artisan</er>.</syn>

<h1>Artificial</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar`ti*fi"cial</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>artificialis</ets>, fr. <ets>artificium</ets>: cf. F. <ets>artificiel</ets>. See <er>Artifice</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to <i>natural</i>; <as>as, <ex>artificial</ex> heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Artificial</b> strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.</def> "<i>Artificial</i> tears."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Artful; cunning; crafty.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>