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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Art \Art\ ([aum]rt). The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb {Be}; but formed after the analogy of the plural are with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf {Be}. Now used only in solemn or poetical style. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Art \Art\ ([aum]rt), n. [F. art, L. ars, artis, orig., skill in joining or fitting; prob. akin to E. arm, aristocrat, article.] 1. The employment of means to accomplish some desired end the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. Blest with each grace of nature and of art. --Pope. 2. A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end method of doing well some special work -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation. Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill. --J. F. Genung 3. The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill. The fishermen can't employ their art with so much success in so troubled a sea. --Addison. 4. The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as he prefers art to literature. 5. pl Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. --Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. --Goldsmith. 6. Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. [Archaic] So vast is art, so narrow human wit. --Pope. 7. Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as a man has the art of managing his business to advantage. 8. Skillful plan device. They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors. --Macaulay. 9. Cunning; artifice; craft. Madam, I swear I use no art at all --Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. --Crabb. 10. The black art; magic. [Obs.] --Shak. {Art and part} (Scots Law), share or concern by aiding and abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity. Note: The arts are divided into various classes. {The useful, mechanical, or industrial arts} are those in which the hands and body are more concerned than the mind; as in making clothes and utensils. These are called trades. {The fine arts} are those which have primarily to do with imagination and taste, and are applied to the production of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music, painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and architecture. {The liberal arts} (artes liberales the higher arts, which among the Romans, only freemen were permitted to pursue) were in the Middle Ages, these seven branches of learning, -- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. In modern times the liberal arts include the sciences, philosophy, history, etc., which compose the course of academical or collegiate education. Hence degrees in the arts; master and bachelor of arts. In America, literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity. --Irving. Syn: Science; literature; aptitude; readiness; skill; dexterity; adroitness; contrivance; profession; business; trade calling; cunning; artifice; duplicity. See {Science}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: -ard \-ard\, -art \-art\ The termination of many English words as coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as braggart, sluggard. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: art n 1: the products of human creativity; works of art collectively [syn: {fine art}] 2: the creation of beautiful or significant things "he was a patron of art" [syn: {artistic creation}, {artistic production}] 3: the superior ability that is attained by study and practice and observation; "he had mastered the art of a great craftsman" [syn: {artistry}, {prowess}, {superior skill}] 4: photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication [syn: {artwork}, {graphics}, {nontextual matter}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Art, TX Zip code(s): 76820 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: ARTA {real-time} {functional language}. It timestamps each data value when it was created. ["Applicative Real-Time Programming", M. Broy, PROC IFIP 1983, N-H]. (1996-01-15) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: ART Adaptive Resonance Theory NN From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: ART Advanced Resolution Technology Minolta From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests.
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