art
The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
The study and the product of these processes.
Aesthetic value.
Artwork.
A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
(dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
[...] and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint, when she returned home employing art, not force—with force she would have found it impossible.
(archaic) Be.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
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