Vocabulary : Articulus to Artificious
Articulus : A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.Artifact : A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects. ;; A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death or the use of reagents and not present during life.
Artifice : A handicraft; a trade; art of making. ;; Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. ;; Artful or skillful contrivance. ;; Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
Artificer : An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith. ;; One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. ;; A cunning or artful fellow. ;; A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
Artificial : 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. ;; Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. ;; Artful; cunning; crafty. ;; Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
