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Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii. 23. "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27.

In a cunning manner; with cunning.

A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Quality of being cunning; craft.

Exceedingly or excessively cunning.

Ignorant. [Obs.] I am young and uncunning, as thou wost [knowest]. Chaucer.

Ignorantly. [Obs.]

Ignorance. [Obs.]

In an ambidextrous manner; cunningly.

Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad. [He] spoke his request with so arch a leer. Tatler.

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.

A cunning or artful fellow. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] Shak.

Subtle; cunning; astute. [R.] Sir W. Scott. -- As*tu"cious*ly, adv. [R.]

An inferior bard. J. Cunningham.

aw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

event a chang in prices. A cabal is a secret association of a few individuals who seek by cunning practices to obtain office and power. A faction is a larger body than a cabal, employed for selfish purposes in agitating the community and working up an excitement with a view to change the existing order of things. "Self…