n. same as artifact.
Syn. -- artifact. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an artefact.
Syn. -- artifactual [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. made by human actions. natural
Syn. -- artifactual [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'A`rtemis, a Greek goddess. ] (Zool.) A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon in Greek mythology; one of the Olympian deities, daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with the Roman Diana.
Syn. -- Cynthia, Diana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. Artemisia, Gr. 'Artemisi`a. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these Artemisia absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and Artemisia tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
Syn. -- artery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. arteriacus, Gr. &unr_;. See Artery. ] Of or pertaining to the windpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. artériel. ] 1. Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. same as arterialize.
Syn. -- arterialize [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Physiol.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arterialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Arterializing. ] To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -graphy. ] A systematic description of the arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an arteriole. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

/mhw>, n. [ NL. arteriola, dim. of L. arteria: cf. F. artériole. ] A small artery with a muscular wall. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -logy. ] That part of anatomy which treats of arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'arthri`a + -logy. ] (Med.) a form of arteriosclerosis which affects predominantly the arterioles, found especially in people with chronic hypertension. Stedman [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL.; Gr. &unr_; artery + sclerosis. ] (Med.) a chronic disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. Subtypes are distinguished, such as arteriolosclerosis and atherosclerosis. -- Ar*te`ri*o*scle*rot"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to arteriosclerosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. arteriotomia, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; a cutting. ] 1. (Med.) The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. connecting an artery to a vein. an arteriovenous fistula [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Artery + -etis. ] Inflammation of an artery or arteries. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Arteries [ L. arteria windpipe, artery, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. The trachea or windpipe. [ Obs. ] “Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In man and other mammals, the arteries which contain arterialized blood receive it from the left ventricle of the heart through the aorta. See Aorta. The pulmonary artery conveys the venous blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, whence the arterialized blood is returned through the pulmonary veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. artésien, fr. Artois in France, where many such wells have been made since the middle of the last century. ] Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France. [ 1913 Webster ]

Artesian wells, wells made by boring into the earth till the instrument reaches water, which, from internal pressure, flows spontaneously like a fountain. They are usually of small diameter and often of great depth. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; a Phœnician goddess. ] (Zool.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; not united, disconnected; 'a priv. + &unr_; with + &unr_; to fasten to. ] Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted. -- A*syn"ar*tet"ic a. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asynartete verse (Pros.), a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A barkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bartered (bär"t&etilde_;rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bartering.] [OE. bartren, OF. barater, bareter, to cheat, exchange, perh. fr. Gr. pra`ttein to do, deal (well or ill), use practices or tricks, or perh. fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. brath treachery, W. brad. Cf. Barrator.] To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

The spirit of huckstering and barter. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing given in exchange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Exchange; dealing; traffic; trade; truck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who barters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Barter. [ Obs. ] Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. given or giving freely.
Syn. -- big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, generous, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. [ 1913 Webster ]

She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe-begone; forlorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See 1st Card. ] 1. Bill of fare. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Short for Carte de visite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . ‖ } n. [ F. quarte, prop., a fourth. Cf. Quart. ] (Fencing) A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., fr. OF. carte paper + -blanc, blanche, white. See 1st Card. ] A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pl. Cartes de visite /plu>. [ F. ] 1. A visiting card. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. LL. cartellus a little paper, dim. fr. L. charta. See 1st Card. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Mil.) An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel., Sir W. Scott.

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Cartel, or
Cartel ship, a ship employed in the exchange of prisoners, or in carrying propositions to an enemy; a ship beating a flag of truce and privileged from capture. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To defy or challenge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You shall cartel him. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A charioteer. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man who drives a cart; a teamster. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman. (b) A British fish; the whiff. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Renatus Cartesius, Latinized from of René Descartes: cf. F. cartésien. ] Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cartesian coordinates (Geom), distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing geometric quantities, invented by Descartes. --
Cartesian devil, a small hollow glass figure, used in connection with a jar of water having an elastic top, to illustrate the effect of the compression or expansion of air in changing the specific gravity of bodies. --
Cartesion oval (Geom.), a curve such that, for any point of the curve mr + m′r′ = c, where r and r′ are the distances of the point from the two foci and m, m′ and c are constant; -- used by Descartes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adherent of Descartes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The philosophy of Descartes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Chart. ] The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chartre, F. chartre, charte, fr. L. chartula a little paper, dim. of charta. See Chart, Card. ] 1. A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king [ John, a.d. 1215 ], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the “Great Charter, ” either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. [ 1913 Webster ]

My mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me, grieves me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Com.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charter land (O. Eng. Law), land held by charter, or in socage; bookland. --
Charter member, one of the original members of a society or corporation, esp. one named in a charter, or taking part in the first proceedings under it. --
Charter party [ F. chartre partie, or charte partie, a divided charter; from the practice of cutting the instrument of contract in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors ] (Com.), a mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in transportation for his own account, either under their charge or his. --
People's Charter (Eng. Hist.), the document which embodied the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English government in 1838. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chartered p. pr. & vb. n. Chartering. ] 1. To establish by charter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The air, a chartered libertine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hired or let by charter, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage. [ 1913 Webster ]