Part 666

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; <as>as, <ex>artificial</ex> grasses</as>.</def>

<i>Gibbon.</i>

<cs><col>Artificial arguments</col> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld>, <cd>arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called <i>inartificial<i> arguments or proofs.</cd> <i>Johnson</i>. -- <col>Artificial classification</col> <fld>(Science)</fld>, <cd>an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, "the <i>artificial<i> system" in botany, which is the same as the Linn\'91an system.</cd> -- <col>Artificial horizon</col>. <cd>See under <er>Horizon</er></cd>. <col>Artificial light</col>, <cd>any light other than that which proceeds from the heavenly bodies.</cd> -- <col>Artificial lines</col>, <cd>lines on a sector or scale, so contrived as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.</cd> -- <col>Artificial numbers</col>, <cd>logarithms.</cd> -- <col>Artificial person</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>. <cd>See under <er>Person</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Artificial sines</col>, <col>tangents</col></mcol>, <cd>etc., the same as logarithms of the natural, tangents, etc. <i>Hutton<i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Artificiality</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar`ti*fi`ci*al"i*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.</def>

<h1>Artificialize</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar`ti*fi"cial*ize</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To render artificial.</def>

<h1>Artificially</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar`ti*fi"cial*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Ingeniously; skillfully.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The spider's web, finely and <b>artificially</b> wrought. <i>Tillotson.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Craftily; artfully.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Sharp dissembled so <b>artificially</b>.

<i>Bp. Burnet.</i>

<h1>Artificialness</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar`ti*fi"cial*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being artificial.</def>

<h1>Artificious</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar`ti*fi"cious</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>artificiosus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Artificial.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Artilize</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Art"i*lize</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make resemble.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of <b>artilizing</b> nature. <i>Bolingbroke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Artillerist</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar*til"ler*ist</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.</def>

<h1>Artillery</h1> <Xpage=86>

<hw>Ar*til"ler*y</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>artilrie</ets>, OF. <ets>artillerie</ets>, <ets>arteillerie</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>artillaria</ets>, <ets>artilleria</ets>, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. <ets>artillerie</ets> great guns, ordnance; OF. <ets>artillier</ets> to work artifice, to fortify, to arm, prob. from L. <ets>ars</ets>, <ets>artis</ets>, skill in joining something, art. See <er>Art</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>And Jonathan gave his <b>artillery</b> unto his lad. <i>1 Sam. xx. 40.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.</def>