CRAFT, n.
1. Art ability dexterity skill.
Poesy is the poets skill or craft of making--
2. Cunning, art or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes artifice guile skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit.
The chief priests and scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark 14 .
3. Art skill dexterity in a particular manual occupation hence, the occupation or employment itself manual art trade.
Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts 19 .
4. All sorts of vessels employed in loading or unloading ships, as lighters, hoys, barges, scows, &c.
Small craft is a term given to small vessels of all hinds, as sloops, schooners, cutters, &c.
CRAFT, To play tricks. Not in use.
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