artiodactyle

[ARTIODACTYL A.] Having even toes, that is, toes even in number. (Used also as a substantive.) "In the even-toed or 'artiodactyle' Ungulates."Owen: Cla if. of the Mammal i a , p. 39. *ar-tique (tique = tik), adj. [ARCTIC.] The same as ARCTIC (q. v.). "From tropick, e'en to pole artique." Dryden: To Sir G. Etherege, 6. *ar'-tis (Old Eng .), äirts ( Scotch ), s. pl. Quarters of the sky. [AIRT.] and sua serclis the erd about all artis anis spreit in all that lyf beris."- euery day, put and sprei Wisdom of Solomon (ed. Lumby), 350, 352. "Of a' the airts the wind can blaw I dearly like the west." Burns: I Love my Jean. ar-ti-săn, s. [Fr. artisan ; Sp. artesano ; Ital. artigiano. From Lat. ars = acquired skill, art.] *1. One who practised any of the arts, including the liberal ones, such as sculpture and painting, or was a student of books. "Zeuxis [meaning the celebrated painter), a profe ed artisan , " -Holland : Pliny , pt. ii., p. 535. (Trench: Select Glo ., pp. 8, 9.) 2. One trained to practise a manual art; a handicraftsman, a mechanic, a tradesman. This meaning, though not the original one, has still long existed; for instance, Bullokar, in the edition of his English Ex posit or , published in 1656, defines an artisan to be "A handy crafts-man; an artificer." "Even in the towns the artisans were very few."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xii.