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CUNNING, a. [G. See Can.]

1. Knowing; skillful; experienced; well-instructed. It is applied to all kinds of knowledge, but generally and appropriately, to the skill and dexterity of artificers, or the knowledge acquired by experience.

Esau was a cunning hunter. Genesis 23.

I will take away the cunning artificer. Isaiah 3.

A cunning workman. Exodus 38.

2. Wrought with skill; curious; ingenious.

With cherubs of cunning work shalt thou make them. Exodus 26.

[The foregoing senses occur frequently in our version of the scriptures, but are nearly or quite obsolete.]

3. Artful; shrewd; sly; crafty; astute; designing; as a cunning fellow.

They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.

In this sense, the purpose or final end of the person may not be illaudalbe; but cunning implies the use of artifice to accomplish the purpose, rather than open, candid, or direct means. Hence,

4. Deceitful; trickish; employing stratagems for a bad purpose.

5. Assumed with subtilty; artful.

Accounting his integrity to be but a cunning face of falsehood.

CUNNING, n.

1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.

Let my right hand forget her cunning. Psalm 137.

2. Art; artifice; artfulness; craft; shrewdness; the faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose. Hence in a bad sense, deceitfulness or deceit; fraudulent skill or dexterity.

Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.
1913 Definition
Cunning (cunning)
a.(k1913 webster dictionaryn"n***ibreve]ng)
Cun"ning
[AS. cunnan to know, to be able. See 1st Con, Can.]
  1. Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
    "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii. 23.

    "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
    Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
    Shak.

    Esau was a cunning hunter.
    Gen xxv. 27.

  2. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.

    Over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web.
    Spenser.

  3. Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.

    They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.
    South.

  4. Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
    [Colloq. U.S.] Barlett.

    Syn. -- Cunning, Artful, Sly, Wily, Crafty. -- These epithets agree in expressing an aptitude for attaining some end by peculiar and secret means. Cunning is usually low; as, a cunning trick. Artful is more ingenious and inventive; as, an artful device. Sly implies a turn for what is double or concealed; as, sly humor; a sly evasion. Crafty denotes a talent for dexterously deceiving; as, a crafty manager. Wily describes a talent for the use of stratagems; as, a wily politician. "Acunning man often shows his dexterity in simply concealing. An artful man goes further, and exerts his ingenuity in misleading. A crafty man mingles cunning with art, and so shapes his actions as to lull suspicions. The young may be cunning, but the experienced only can be crafty. Slyness is a vulgar kind of cunning; the sly man goes cautiously and silently to work. Wiliness is a species of cunning or craft applicable only to cases of attack and defense." Crabb.

  5. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
    [Archaic]

    Let my right hand forget her cunning.
    Ps. cxxxvii. 5.

    A carpenter's desert
    Stands more in cunning than in power.
    Chapman.

  6. The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.

    Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.
    Locke.

    We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.
    Bacon.


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