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Art
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Skillful plan; device.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) 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.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) The black art; magic.
(6):
(n.) Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.
(7):
(n.) Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.
(8):
(n.) 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.
(9):
(n.) Cunning; artifice; craft.
(10):
(n.) The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill.
(11):
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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Art'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/art.html. 1828.
