Craft
(Craft), v. t. To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]
You have crafted fair.
Shak.
crafter
(crafter) n. a creator of great skill in the manual arts.
Syn. — craftsman.
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Craftily
(Craft"i*ly) adv. [See Crafty.] With craft; artfully; cunningly.
Craftiness
(Craft"i*ness) n. Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Job. v. 13.
Craftless
(Craft"less) a. Without craft or cunning.
Helpless, craftless, and innocent people.
Jer. Taylor.
Craftsman
(Crafts"man) n.; pl. Craftsmen One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a
mechanic.
Craftsmanship
(Crafts"man*ship), n. The work of a craftsman.
Craftsmaster
(Crafts"mas`ter) n. One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.
In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster.
Holland.
Crafty
(Craft"y) a. [AS. crftig.]
1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [Obs.] "Crafty work." Piers Plowman.
2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
A noble crafty man of trees.
Wyclif.
3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak.
With anxious care and crafty wiles.
J. Baillie.
Syn. — Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See Cunning.
Crag
(Crag) n. [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak, Armor. karrek.]
1. A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
From crag to crag the signal flew.
Sir W. Scott.
2. (Geol.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
Crag
(Crag), n. [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen. See Craw.]
1. The neck or throat [Obs.]
And bear the crag so stiff and so state.
Spenser.
2. The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Johnson.
