Word Meanings - QUAINTISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Craft; subtlety; cunning. Chaucer. R. of Glouces. 2. Elegance; beauty. Chaucer.

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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.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• 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.
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• 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
• BEAUTY
  biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. 1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color
• CRAFTSMAN
  One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
• CRAFTILY
  With craft; artfully; cunningly.
• ELEGANCE; ELEGANCY
  1. The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style,
• CUNNING
  1. Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii.
• CUNNER
  A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
• SUBTLETY
  1. The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness. The fox which lives by subtlety. Shak. 2. Nice discernment with delicacy of mental action; nicety of discrimination. 3. Something that is sly, crafty, or delusive.
• CRAFTSMASTER
  One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning. In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. Holland.
• 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.
• 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.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• HANDCRAFT
  See HANDICRAFT
• UNCUNNINGLY
  Ignorantly.
• OVERCUNNING
  Exceedingly or excessively cunning.
• HANDICRAFT
  1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Addison. 2. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. Dryden.
• WOODCRAFT
  Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods. Men of the glade and forest! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight. Bryant.
• WATER CRAFT
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.