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| 1. n. (obsolete) Strength; power; might; force. |  |
| 2. n. Intellectual power; skill; art. | |
| 3. n. Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; | |
| 4. n. Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) Occult art, magic. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art. | |
| 7. n. (collective or plural) Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities. | |
| 10. n. Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession. | |
| The craft of writing plays. | |
| 11. n. (plural crafts) A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practi | |
| The carpenter's craft. | |
| He learned his craft as an apprentice. | |
| 12. n. A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’. | |
| She represented the craft of brewers. | |
| 13. n. (plural craft) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space. | |
| 14. n. (nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as | |
| 15. n. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants. | |
| 16. n. (figurative) A woman. | |
| 17. n. (fishing) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc.. | |
| 18. v. To make by hand and with much skill. | |
| 19. v. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): "state crafting", "crafting global policing". | |
| 20. v. (video games) to combine multiple items to form a new item | |
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