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ART. The power of doing. something not taught by nature or instinct. Johnson. Eunomus defines art to be a collection of certain rules for doinganything in a set form. Dial. 2, p. 74. The Dictionaire des SciencesMedicales, q.v., defines it in nearly the same terms. 2. The arts are divided into mechanical and liberal arts. Themechanical arts are those which require more bodily than mental labor; theyare usually called trades, and those who pursue them are called artisans ormechanics. The liberal are those which have for the sole or principalobject, works of the mind, and those who are engaged in them are calledartists. Pard. Dr. Com. n. 35. 3. The act of Congress of July 4, 1836, s. 6, in describing thesubjects of patents, uses the term art. The sense of this word in its usualacceptation is perhaps too comprehensive. The thing to be patented is not amere elementary, principle, or intellectual discovery, but a principle putin practice, and applied to some art, machine, manufacture, or compositionof matter. 4 Mason, 1. 4. Copper-plate printing on the back of a bank note, is an art forwhich a patent may be granted. 4 Wash. C. C. R. 9.

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