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Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak. In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools. Ames.

Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.[Archaic] He [the dwarf] was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.

to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.

Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money- making; crafty. The mercurial wand of commerce. J. Q. Adams.

Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [Obs.] Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer.

An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. [Prov. Eng.] Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale. [Prov. Eng.]

A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Skillful; clever; crafty. [Obs.] Cudworth.

raw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon. [Obs.] Still, as he went, he crafty stales did lay. Spenser.

Sly; crafty; cunning; artful. [R.]

Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme. [In this sense now commonly written subtle.]

Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.

Something that is sly, crafty, or delusive. Unlearned in the world's false subtleties. Shak.

Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; unfair practice; trickery. Milton.

Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks. [Obs.] Feltham.

Crafty; wily; cunning; artful. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy; cunning; crafty; artful. Vulpine phalangist (Zoöl.), an Australian carnivorous marsupial (Phalangista, or Trichosurus, vulpina); -- called also vulpine phalanger, and vulpine opossum.