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ligious motives or credulity of others. It is better that men should be governed by priestcraft than by violence. Macaulay.

Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen. Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. Fuller.

The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

composition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.

Astrology. [R.] Tennyson.

The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.

A sly trick or device; as, an undercraft of authors. [R.] Sterne.

Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.

Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.

Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. [Obs.] Camden.

y in shooting, and other sports in the woods. Men of the glade and forest! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight. Bryant.

ifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

A cannon capable of being trained at very high angles for use against aircraft.

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot.

A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.

tc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

Cunning; artifice; craft. Madam, I swear I use no art at all. Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. Crabb.

Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.] Artful in speech, in action, and in mind. Pope. The artful revenge of various animals. Darwin.

In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.