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The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

Foxlike. [Obs.] "Foxly craft." Latimer.

Foxiness; craftiness. [R.] Shak.

llop. "Gentle music." Sir J. Davies. O sleep! it is a gentle thing. Coleridge. The gentle craft, the art or trade of shoemaking.

[R.] It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.

Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson.

Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.

A cunning or crafty person [Collog.] Prior.

Partially decked. The half-decked craft . . . used by the latter Vikings. Elton.

A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.

Stealing on or into the confidence or affections; having power to gain favor. "Crafty, insinuative, plausible men." Bp. Reynolds.

A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration of his craft. [Obs.]

Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer. Jesuits' bark, Peruvian bark, or the bark of certain species of Cinchona; -- so called because its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America. -- Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar. -- Jesuits' nut, the European water…

Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.

Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak.

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.

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark. I 'll undertake top land them on our coast. Shak.

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