(a) One of the seven traditional fields of study, or disciplines, included in the basic curriculum of the medieval university, i.e. grammar, rhetoric, logic or dialectic (constituting the trivium), and arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music (constituting the quadrivium); the seven (liberal or fre) artes or ars; art quadrivial, one of the disciplines of the quadrivium; ~ of nombring, arithmetic; ~ of speche, rhetoric; (b) the whole field of the 'seven arts', or of the trivium or the quadrivium; faculte of art, the field of the liberal arts; maister of art, master of arts (i.e. of the seven liberal arts); art trivial, the field of the trivium; (c) specif., 'dialectic', 'rhetoric'.

The principles and practices of such organized fields of knowledge and activity as law, medicine, theology, philosophy, literary composition, alchemy, astrology, and magic; ~ of medicine, ~ of song, ~ poetical; ars (art) magique; curious (sotil, secret) artes, strange or occult 'sciences'.

The principles and practices of a craft; a craft or occupation; art mechanical.

A code of morals or of behavior, such as that of chivalry, courtly love, or love-making; art of chivalrie; loves art.

(a) Knowledge or know-how as applied to a situation or a problem, ability to apply or practice an 'art'; usen ~, apply an 'art'; failen of (in) art, fail in the application or practice of (one's) 'art'; (b) the application of human skill or means, 'art' as opposed to nature.

(a) Learning, scholarship; (b) skill, craftsmanship; don ~, apply (one's) skill.

(a) Cunning, craftiness, trickery; (b) a clever or crafty plan or device; also, a means or manner of doing sth.