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Craftiness; astuteness. [R.] Carlyle.

Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

To entrap; to insnare. [Obs.] Grafton.

A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks." Tubs hanging in the balks. Chaucer.

A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

y, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

mon American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.

One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.

By chance; by accident. [Obs.] Grafton.

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 form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

The principal rafters of a roof. Weale.

e for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

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.

n the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the p…