Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ART-IST, n. [Fr. artiste; It. artista; from L. ars. See Art.]

1. One skilled in an art or trade; one who is master or professor of a manual art; a good workman in any trade.
2. A skillful man; not a novice.
3. In an academical sense, a proficient in the faculty of arts; a philosopher. – Encyc.
4. One skilled in the fine arts; as a painter, sculptor, architect, &c.