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The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.

A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]

Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] Shak.

Craftily; artfully. [Obs.] Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.

One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic. This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. Hume.

One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. [Obs.] How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller.

Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's e…

Craftiness; astuteness. [R.] Carlyle.

Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure. The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Gen. iii. 13.

To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.

To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.

of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. Burrill.

umatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty. [R.]

Caution; crafty management. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]

Craft; deceit; falseness. [Obs.] Shak.

Crafty; deceitful; false. [Obs.] Shak. -- Cau"te*lous*ly, adv. -- Cau"te*lous*ness, n. [Obs.]