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Damp; musty. [Prov. Eng.]

Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [Obs.] "Crafty work." Piers Plowman.

To exceed in cunning. [R.] Shak.

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.

Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.

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

Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty. [R.]

Caution; crafty management. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]

Crafty; deceitful; false. [Obs.] Shak. -- Cau"te*lous*ly, adv. -- Cau"te*lous*ness, n. [Obs.]

A crafty fox. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Like a snake; cunning; crafty. Johnson.

a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. Shak.

Crafty; sly; artful; designid; deceitful. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. South.

Crafty; deceitful. [R.] Keats.

eir recent device of demanding benevolences. Hallam. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job v. 12.

A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. Beattie.

A cunning or crafty person [Collog.] Prior.

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

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…