<B>art</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>painting, drawing, and sculpture. <BR> <I>Ex. She is studying art and music.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>paintings, sculptures, and other works of art; artwork. <BR> <I>Ex. He went to an exhibit at the museum of art.</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>any form of human activity that is the product of and appeals primarily to the imagination. The fine arts include drawing, painting, and sculpture, and also architecture, poetry, music, and dancing. <BR> <I>Ex. The arts are civilization's storehouse of felt values, the rendering of what has seemed important to those of powerful imagination and profound feeling and great mastery of expression (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a branch of learning that depends more on special practice than on general principles. Writing compositions is an art; grammar is a science. <DD><B> c. </B>Usually, <B>arts,</B> pl. <DD> a branch or division of learning, especially in the humanities. History, literature, and philosophy are included among the arts; biology, chemistry, and physics are among the sciences. <BR> <I>Ex. She is attending a college of arts and sciences.</I> <DD><B> 1. </B>these types of activities taken together. <BR> <I>Ex. "Classical art is healthy, romantic art sickly," said Goethe (Listener). Modern histories of nineteenth-century art are entirely theological in tone (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a set of working principles or methods gained by experience. <BR> <I>Ex. the art of war. She understands the art of making friends.</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>special skill. <BR> <I>Ex. the art of saying things well.</I> (SYN) faculty, knack. <DD><B> b. </B>some kind of skill or practical application of skill. Cooking, sewing, and housekeeping are household arts. (SYN) craft, vocation. <DD><B> c. </B>human skill or effort; ingenuity. <BR> <I>Ex. This well-kept garden owes more to art than to nature.</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>a skillful act. <DD><B> b. </B>a trick, stratagem, or wile. <BR> <I>Ex. The witch deceived the girl by her arts.</I> (SYN) craft, guile. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) learning in general. <BR><I>expr. <B>art and part in,</B> </I>concerned both in the planning and the perpetration of (anything); accessory. <BR> <I>Ex. You are art and part with us In purging heresy (Tennyson).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>arts,</B> </I>subjects forming a course leading to a preliminary degree. <BR> <I>Ex. Literature is one of the liberal arts.</I> </DL>
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<B>art</B> (2), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic or Poetic.) are (used only with <I>thou</I>). "Thou art" means "You are." </DL>
<B>artal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>rotl.</B> </DL>
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<B>art brut,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a work of art, especially a painting, free of cultural influence and without any particular technique. <BR> <I>Ex. He began to collect ... art brut--the art works of children, delinquents, prisoners, schizoids and other mental patients (Observer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) raw art. </DL>
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<B>Art Deco</B> or <B>art deco,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a style of ornate, geometrical, and colorful decoration that originated in France in the 1920's. </DL>
<B>artel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cooperative association of workers. </DL>
<A NAME="artemia">
<B>artemia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of small crustaceans found in saline waters, used commercially as fish food. </DL>
<A NAME="artemis">
<B>Artemis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) the goddess of the hunt, of the forests, of wild animals, and of the moon. She was the twin sister of Apollo and was called Diana by the Romans. </DL>
<A NAME="artemisia">
<B>artemisia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of plants that includes wormwood. They grow mainly in dry regions of the Northern Hemisphere. An artemisia with silvery gray foliage which keeps all winter is often grown in gardens. </DL>
<A NAME="arterenol">
<B>arterenol, </B>noun. =norepinephrine.</DL>
<A NAME="arterial">
<B>arterial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of an artery or the arteries. <BR> <I>Ex. hardening of the arterial walls.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>contained in the arteries. Arterial blood is bright red because it has been purified and oxygenated by passing through the lungs. <DD><B> 3. </B>serving as a major route of transportation, supply, or access. <BR> <I>Ex. Many large arterial highways join the nation's cities.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>having a main channel with many branches. adv. <B>arterially.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="arterialize">
<B>arterialize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to convert (venous blood) into the bright-red blood of the arteries by the action of oxygen in the lungs. noun <B>arterialization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="arterio">
<B>arterio-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) artery or arteries. <BR> <I>Ex. Arteriotomy = the opening of an artery.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="arteriogram">
<B>arteriogram, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an X-ray photograph of an artery. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=arteriograph.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="arteriograph">
<B>arteriograph, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>an instrument which makes a graph of the pulsing of an artery. <DD><B> b. </B>the graph or tracing itself. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=arteriogram.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="arteriographic">
<B>arteriographic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an arteriograph. </DL>
<A NAME="arteriography">
<B>arteriography, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art or science of using the arteriograph. </DL>
<A NAME="arteriolar">
<B>arteriolar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with an arteriole. <DD><B> 2. </B>resembling an arteriole. </DL>
<A NAME="arteriole">
<B>arteriole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small artery, especially one leading into capillaries. </DL>
<A NAME="arteriology">
<B>arteriology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the scientific study of the arteries. </DL>
<A NAME="arteriosclerosis">
<B>arteriosclerosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a progressive thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, causing a decrease or loss of circulation and often associated with high blood pressure or with chronic disease of the kidneys. Arteriosclerosis usually occurs in elderly people. </DL>
<A NAME="arteriosclerotic">
<B>arteriosclerotic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having arteriosclerosis. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who has arteriosclerosis. </DL>
<A NAME="arteriotomy">
<B>arteriotomy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the surgical opening of an artery. </DL>
<A NAME="arteriovenous">
<B>arteriovenous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with both an artery and a vein. <BR> <I>Ex. An arteriovenous aneurysm allows a vein and artery to open into one another (Lois G. Lobb).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="arteritis">
<B>arteritis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> inflammation of an artery or arteries. </DL>
<A NAME="artery">
<B>artery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-teries,</B> verb, <B>-teried,</B> <B>-terying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>any of the blood vessels or tubes that carry blood from the heart to all parts of the body. Arteries are membranous, elastic, and muscular and form part of the system of blood vessels. <DD><B> 2. </B>a main road; important channel. <BR> <I>Ex. Oceans serve as the main arteries of transportation between continents (Ernest W. Williams, Jr.).</I> (SYN) highway, thoroughfare. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to supply with arteries. <DD><B> 2. </B>to traverse like arteries. <BR> <I>Ex. Great rivers arteried every state (Lucy L. Cameron).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="artesianwell">
<B>artesian well,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. </B>a deep, drilled well from which water gushes up without pumping, located in a formation where water pressure is sufficient to produce a constant supply of water rising to the surface of the ground. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) any deep, drilled well. </DL>
<A NAME="artfilm">
<B>art film,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a motion picture that is artistic or avantgarde, especially in theme and technique. </DL>
<A NAME="artform">
<B>art form,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any traditional or recognized medium of expression in the arts, especially in painting, music, or literature. <BR> <I>Ex. The sonnet was one of the art forms in Shakespeare's day.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any medium of expression considered to resemble one of these, such as folk singing. <BR> <I>Ex. He is hired by The Torch, a progressive weekly full of stories by Africans and given to hailing primitive folkways as major new art forms (Malcolm Bradbury).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="artful">
<B>artful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>slyly clever; deceitful; crafty. <BR> <I>Ex. A swindler uses artful tricks to get people's money away from them.</I> (SYN) sly. <DD><B> 2. </B>skillful; clever. <BR> <I>Ex. His artful settling of the disagreement won everybody's approval.</I> (SYN) adroit. <DD><B> 3. </B>artificial. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) having or showing practical or constructive skill. adv. <B>artfully.</B> noun <B>artfulness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="artglass">
<B>art glass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> decorative colored glassware, especially of a type developed in the 1800's. </DL>
<A NAME="arthouse">
<B>art house,</B> =art theater.</DL>
<A NAME="arthralgia">
<B>arthralgia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> pain, especially neuralgic pain, in a joint. </DL>
<A NAME="arthralgic">
<B>arthralgic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or affected with arthralgia. </DL>
<A NAME="arthritic">
<B>arthritic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of arthritis. <DD><B> 2. </B>caused by arthritis. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) feeble; decrepit. <BR> <I>Ex. ... creating a modern railway system out of the present arthritic Victorian organism (London Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a person who has arthritis. adv. <B>arthritically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="arthritical">
<B>arthritical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Rare or Obsolete.) arthritic. </DL>
<A NAME="arthritis">
<B>arthritis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an inflammation of a joint or joints of the body. Rheumatism and gout are two kinds of arthritis. </DL>
<A NAME="arthrodesis">
<B>arthrodesis, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ses.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> immobilization or stabilization of a joint by surgical fusion of the bones. </DL>
<A NAME="arthrodia">
<B>arthrodia, </B>noun, pl. <B>-diae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Anatomy.) a gliding joint; diarthrosis. </DL>
