a clause or condition of a contract, treaty, &c. It is also a small part or division of a discourse, a book, or writing, &c.

in grammar, a particle in most languages that serves to express the several cases and genders of nouns, when the language has not different terminations to denote the different states and circumstances of nouns. See GRAMMAR.

ARTICULARIS morsus. See GOUT, and MEDICINE.

ARTICULATE sounds are such sounds as express the letters, syllables, or words of any alphabet or language: such are formed by the human voice, and by some few birds, as parrots, &c.