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Acknowledgment. [Obs.] Grafton.

A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]

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

A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.

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

The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. [Obs.] Gwilt.

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.

The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

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.

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

(Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws. -- The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.

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…

The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.