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Craft (krȧft), n. [AS. cræft strength, skill, art, cunning; akin to OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft strength, D. kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together, stretching, from the root of E. cramp.]
1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
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Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts xix. 25.
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A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. B. Jonson.
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Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations,
Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Longfellow.
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3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, “the craft of ironmongers”.
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The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. J. R. Green.
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4. Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.
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You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes.
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The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.
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5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
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The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson.
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Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.
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Craft, v. t. To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]
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You have crafted fair. Shak.
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