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A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

Authorship; literary skill.

-- Bur"schen*schaft`ler (#), -schaf`ter (#), n.

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. [Also but shaft.] Shak.

To clothe with a caftan. [R.] The turbaned and caftaned damsel. Sir W. Scott.

To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.

An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.

; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade. Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts xix. 25. A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. B. Jonson. Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Long…

a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. [WordNet 1.5]

With craft; artfully; cunningly.

and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.

Without craft or cunning. Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor.

One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

The work of a craftsman.

One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning. In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. Holland.

Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [Obs.] "Crafty work." Piers Plowman.

Stupid; folish; idiotic; also, delirious; insance; as, he has gone daft. Let us think no more of this daft business Sir W. Scott.

The quality of being daft.

Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.