Emily Dickinson Lexicon

art (-s), n. [OFr < L. ars, to fit.] (webplay: acquired, building, can, experience, grow, hands, human, making, man, mind, nature, painting, poetry, power, science, second, serving, skill, things).

1. Gift; talent; genius; aesthetic sensibility; mastery of dance, music, painting, or other enhancing skills.
2. Trade; craft; set of rules which enables one to create.
3. Ability; power; competence; faculty; that which enables one to perform various tasks.
4. Technique; method; procedure; approach; strategy.
5. Decoration; embellishment; [fig.] natural beauty.