Part 658

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>So vast is <b>art</b>, so narrow human wit. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, asquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; a, a man has the <i>art</i> of managing his business to advantage.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Skillful plan; device.</def>

<blockquote>They employed every <b>art</b> to soothe . . . the discontented warriors. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Cunning; artifice; craft.</def>

<blockquote>Madam, I swear I use no <b>art</b> at all. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Animals practice <b>art</b> when opposed to their superiors in strength. <i>Crabb.</i></blockquote>

<h1>10</h1> <Xpage=85>

<hw>10</hw> <def>To black art; magic.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>Art and part</col> <fld>(Scots Law)</fld>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<note>&hand; The <i>arts</i> are divided into various classes. <col>The useful, mechanical, or industrial arts</col> are those in which the hands and body are concerned than the mind; as in making clothes and utensils. These are called <i>trades</i>. <col>The fine arts</col> are those which have primarily to do with imagination 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. <col>The liberal arts</col> (<i>artes liberales</i>, 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 <i>liberal arts</i> include the sciences, philosophy, history, etc., which compose the course of academical or collegiate education. Hence, degrees in the <i>arts</i>; master and bachelor of <i>arts</i>.</note>

<blockquote>In America, literature and the elegant <b>arts</b> must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity. <i>Irving.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Science; literature; aptitude; readiness; skill; dexterity; adroitness; contrivance; profession; business; trade; calling; cunning; artifice; duplicity. See <er>Science</er>.</syn>

<h1>Artemia</h1> <Xpage=85>

<hw>Ar*te"mi*a</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/, a Greek goddess.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See <er>Brine shrimp</er>.</def>

<h1>Artemisia</h1> <Xpage=85>

<hw>Ar`te*mi"si*a</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Artemisia</ets>, Gr. <?/.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these <spn>A. absinthium</spn>, or common wormwood, is well known, and <spn>A. tridentata</spn> is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.</def>

<h1>Arteriac</h1> <Xpage=85>

<hw>Ar*te"ri*ac</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>arteriacus</ets>, Gr. <?/. See <er>Artery</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to the windpipe.</def>

<h1>Arterial</h1> <Xpage=85>

<hw>Ar*te"ri*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>art\'82riel</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; <as>as, <ex>arterial</ex> action; the <ex>arterial</ex> system.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad.</def>

<cs><col>Arterial blood</col>, <cd>blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.</cd></cs>

<h1>Arterialization</h1> <Xpage=85>

<hw>Ar*te`ri*al*i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also <altname>a\'89ration</altname> and <altname>hematosis</altname>.</def>

<h1>Arterialize</h1> <Xpage=85>