(ärt), n.
1. the production or expression of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary signifigance. 2. Journ. any illustration in a newspaper or magazine. 3. a department of skilled performance: industrial art. 4. (pl.) a branch of learning or university study. 5. (pl.) liberal arts. 6. skilled workmanship, execution, or agency (often opposed to nature). 7. craft; cunning: glib and oily art. 8. studied action: artificiality in behavior. 9. (usually pl.) an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics. 10. Archaic. learning or science.


(wûrk), n., adj., v.
1. exertion directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. 2. productive or operative activity. 3. the transference of energy from one body or system to another. 4. employment, as in some form of industry: out of work, look for work. 5. an engineering structure, as a building, bridge, dock, or the like. 6. (pl.) the working parts of a mechanical contrivance. 7. to act or operate effectively: the plan works. 8. to have an effect or influence, as on a person or on the mind or feelings. 9. to effect, accomplish, cause, or do. 10. to solve (often fol. by out): to work out a problem. 11. to move, stir, or excite in feeling, etc.