articulation

[In Ger. art i kula tion; Fr. articulation; Sp. articulacion Port. ar ticulaquo; Ital. art i col azione. From Lat. arti But by the great Artificer endued With no inferior power." Words worth: Excursion, bk. iv. 2. In a bad sense : One who devises anything bad. Spec ., a cunning person, a trickster. "He, soon aware, Each perturbation smooth'd with outward calm, Arficer of fraud and was the first That practis'd falsehood under saintly show." Milton: P. L., bk. iv. ar-tif-i-çer-ship, s. [Eng. artificer ; suff. -ship.] The state of being an artificer; the whole body of artificers taken collectively. forth of new joints or nodes.] A. Ordinary Language: I. The act of articulating. Spec., the act of forming sounds distinctly separated. "I conceive that an extreme small, or an extreme great, sound cannot be articulate, but that the articu lati on requireth a mediocrity of sound."-Bacon. II. The state of being articulated. 1. Lit. The state of being jointed. [В., Zool ., Bot .] 2. The state of being articulately sounded, so as to be intelligible, or simply of being intelligible without indication how. "The looks and gestures of their griefs and fears Have all articulation in his ears." Cowper: The Needle Alarm . III. That which is articulated. Anat., .; 2. Bot.] B. Technically: [B., 1, 1. Anat., Zool., Painting, Sculpture, .: A joint; the particular kind of connection between two bones. This is of three kinds, Diarthrosis, Synarthrosis, and Symphysis (q.v.). "A joint, or articulation , may be defined to be the union of any two segments of an animal body, through the intervention of a structure or structures different from both."-Todd & Bowman: Physiol . Anat ., 1. 131. 2. Dot . The nodes of an articulated stem. 3. Gram. A consonant, so called because It is formed by the bending of the organs of voice into the joint, as closing the lips, . ar-tic-u-la-tor, s. [Eng. articulat (e), and suff. -or .] 1. One who articulates or pronounces. 2. One who articulates bones or skeletons.