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See Graft.

Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.

A cunning or crafty person [Collog.] Prior.

Partially decked. The half-decked craft . . . used by the latter Vikings. Elton.

The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.

e. -- Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge. -- Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. -- Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of…

A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.

lustrious; plebeian; common; humble. I was not ignoble of descent. Shak. Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants. Shak.

A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic]

To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach. P. Miler.

A method of ingrafting. See Inarch.

To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate. The arts of grafting and ineying. J. Philips.

See Ingraft. [Obs.]

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

Stealing on or into the confidence or affections; having power to gain favor. "Crafty, insinuative, plausible men." Bp. Reynolds.

The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment. Ray.

A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration of his craft. [Obs.]

Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer. Jesuits' bark, Peruvian bark, or the bark of certain species of Cinchona; -- so called because its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America. -- Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar. -- Jesuits' nut, the European water…

Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.