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control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. No witchcraft charm thee! Shak.

One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.

A crafty fox. [Obs.] Chaucer.

to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.

Like a snake; cunning; crafty. Johnson.

a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. Shak.

The human body, whether living or dead. [Obs.] See Corpse, 1. By what craft in my corps, it cometh [commences] and where. Piers Plowman.

Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse. [Obs.] She [the Queen] being composed of courtship and Popery. Fuller.

A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft.

Crafty; sly; artful; designid; deceitful. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. South.

Quality of being cunning; craft.

Crafty; deceitful. [R.] Keats.

Craft; insidiousness. [R.] J. Gregory.

heir recent device of demanding benevolences. Hallam. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job v. 12.

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton.

A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also dhony, doney, and done.]

A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [Written also droger.] Ham. Nar. Encyc.

The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.…

Caused or acting by witchcraft. [Obs.] "Fascinous diseases." Harvey.

A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. Beattie.