Artist

1. n. An artful person; a schemer.
2. n. One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
3. n. One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
4. n. One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.