ARTIFICIALITY
ARTIFICIAL'ITY, noun The quality of being artificial; appearance of art.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ARTIFICIALLY
ARTIFI'CIALLY, adverb By art, or human skill and contrivance; hence, with good contrivance; with art or ingenuity.
ARTIFICIALNESS
ARTIFI'CIALNESS, noun The quality of being artificial.
ARTILLERY
ARTIL'LERY, noun This word has no plural.1. In a general sense, offensive weapons of war. Hence it was formerly used for bows and arrows.And Jonathan gave his artillery to his l...
ARTISAN
'ARTISAN, noun s as z. [Latin ars. See Art.]An artist; one skilled in any art, mystery or trade; a handicrafts-man; a mechanic; a tradesman.
ARTIST
'ARTIST, noun [Latin ars. See Art.]1. One skilled in an art or trade; one who is master or professor of a manual art; a good workman in any trade.2. A skilful man; not a novice....
ARTLESS
'ARTLESS, adjective1. Unskillful; wanting art, knowledge or skill.2. Free from guile, art, craft or stratagem; simple; sincere; unaffected; undesigning; as an artless mind.3. Co...
ARTLESSLY
'ARTLESSLY, adverb1. Without art or skill; in an artless manner.2. Without guile; naturally; sincerely; unaffectedly.
ARTLESSNESS
'ARTLESSNESS, noun The quality of being void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity; unaffectedness.
ARTOTYRITE
AR'TOTYRITE, noun [Gr. bread, and cheese.]One of a sect of heretics, in the primitive church, who celebrated the eucharist with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblatio...
ARTS-MAN
'ARTS-MAN, noun A learned man. obsolete
ARUM
A'RUM, noun [Latin See aurate.] Gold.Aurum fulminans, fulminating gold, is gold dissolved in aqua-regia or nitro-muriatic acid, and precipitated by volatile alkali. This precipi...
ARUNDELIAN
ARUNDE'LIAN, adjective Pertaining to Arundel, as arundelian marbles. The arundelian marbles are ancient stones, containing a chronological detail of the principal events of Gree...
ARUNDINACEOUS
ARUNDINA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin arundo, a reed.]Pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.
ARUNDINEOUS
ARUNDIN'EOUS, adjective Abounding with reeds.
ARURA
ARU'RA, noun [Gr.] Literally, as authors suppose, a plowed field. According to Herodotus, and Suidas, the arura of Egypt, was a piece of ground fifty feet square. Others make it...
ARUSPEX
ARUS'PEX, noun [Latin] A soothsayer.
ARUSPICE
ARUS'PICE, noun Written also haruspice. [Latin aruspex, or haruspex, a soothsayer, or diviner, who attempted to foretell events by consulting the entrails of beasts slain in sac...
ARUSPICY
ARUS'PICY, noun The act of prognosticating by inspection of the entrails of beasts, slain in sacrifice.
AS
AS, adverb az. [Gr. But more probably the English word is contracted from als.]1. Literally, like; even; similar. 'Ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.' 'As far as we can...
ASA
ASA, A corruption of lasar, an ancient name of a gum. [See Ooze.]
ASA-DULCIS
ASA-DULCIS, The same as benzoin.
ASA-FETIDA
ASA-FET'IDA, noun [Asa, gum, and Latin fatidus, fetid.]A fetid gum-resin, from the East Indies. It is the concrete juice of a large unbelliferous plant, much used in Medicine, a...
ASBESTINE
ASBES'TINE, adjective [See Asbestus.]Pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature and qualities; incombustible.
ASBESTINITE
ASBES'TINITE, noun [See Asbestus.] The actinolite or strahlstein.Calciferous abestinite; a variety of steatite.
ASBESTOS
ASBES'TOS, noun [Gr. inextinguishable; of neg. to extinguish.]A mineral, which has frequently the appearance of a vegetable substance. It is always fibrous, and its fibers somet...
ASBESTUS
ASBES'TUS,ASCA'RIS, nounplural ascar'ides. [Gr.]In zoology, a genus of intestinal worms. The body is cylindrical, and tapering at the ends. It includes two of the most common wo...