Word Meanings - CRAFTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Without craft or cunning. Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor.
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- CRAFTY
1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "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. - PEOPLE
1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. - CUNNINGNESS
Quality of being cunning; craft. - INNOCENT
1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. Shak. 2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. B. Jonson. In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent. Sir W. Scott. Innocents' - INNOCENTLY
In an innocent manner. - CRAFTER
a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - CRAFTLESS
Without craft or cunning. Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor. - CUNNINGLY
In a cunning manner; with cunning. - CRAFTINESS
Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13. - HELPLESS
1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant. How shall I then your helpless fame defend Pope. 2. Beyond help; irremediable. Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either - CUNNINGMAN
A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras. - TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in - CRAFTSMANSHIP
The work of a craftsman. - CRAFT
A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense. The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson. Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets. (more info) OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft - PEOPLED
Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray. - WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer. - PEOPLE'S PARTY
A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc. - PEOPLER
A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie. - KINGCRAFT
The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott. - WITCRAFT
1. Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. Camden. 2. The art of reasoning; logic. - TRADESPEOPLE
People engaged in trade; shopkeepers. - PENCRAFT
1. Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography. 2. The art of composing or writing; authorship. I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft. S - STARCRAFT
Astrology. Tennyson. - WITCHCRAFT
1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak. - IMPEOPLE
To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - HANDCRAFT
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