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A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.

e; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. The life so short, the craft so long to learn. Chaucer. To short absense I could yield. Milton.

Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. [Prov. Eng.] Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale. [Prov. Eng.]

A soft-spoken, crafty hypocrite. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Cunning; craft; artful practice. [Obs.] "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer.

Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness, The litle of the kingdom I possess. Spenser.

In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily. Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.

al about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the coarser parts by screening. -- Small craft (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a small size. -- Small fruits. See under Fruit. -- Small hand, a certain size of paper. See under Paper. -- Small hours. See under Hour. -- Small letter. (Print.), a lower-cas…

o savor; as, a report smells of calumny. Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft. Milton.

Skillful; clever; crafty. [Obs.] Cudworth.

stance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment. Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries. Milton.

raw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon. [Obs.] Still, as he went, he crafty stales did lay. Spenser.

The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy. [Obs.] The enemies of God . . . call our religion statism. South.

To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously. Tennyson.

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.

A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

Sly; crafty; cunning; artful. [R.]

Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme. [In this sense now commonly written subtle.]

Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer.

Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.