Obs. [f. as prec. + MASTER.]
1. (Also art-master) A teacher of art, or of an art or craft. (Cf. music-master.)
1589. Nashe, in Greene’s Menaphon, Ded. (Arb.), 5. Their idiot art-masters that intrude themselves … as the alcumists of eloquence.
1652. Zeal Examined, Add. § 3. 32. Herein is that old Serpent his Arts Master.
1740. Prov. for Poor, 23. Apprenticed under proper Arts-masters.
2. One who is master of an art or craft; a master craftsman, a chief artificer.
1623. Drumm. of Hawth., Cypress Grove, Wks. 124. What the Arts-master of this universe is in governing this universe, thou art in the body.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., IV. 168. Daedalus, a great Arts-master … devised … a wodden cow.
