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n. 1. 1 a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. designed for or used for defense against attack by aircraft; as, anti-aircraft cannon. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. 1 pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming.
Syn. -- arty-crafty, artsy, arty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming
Syn. -- artsy-craftsy [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Authorship; literary skill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts xix. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations,
Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. [ 1913 Webster ]

The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To play tricks; to practice artifice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You have crafted fair. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See Crafty. ] With craft; artfully; cunningly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. [ 1913 Webster ]

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without craft or cunning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Craftsmen One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The work of a craftsman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning. [ 1913 Webster ]

In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. cræftig. ] 1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. [ Obs. ] “Crafty work.” Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. [ 1913 Webster ]

A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. “A pair of crafty knaves.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With anxious care and crafty wiles. J. Baillie.

Syn. -- Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily; sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See Cunning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ The same word as draught. OE. draught, draht, fr. AS. dragan to draw. See Draw, and cf. Draught. ] 1. The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught. [ 1913 Webster ]

Everything available for draft burden. S. G. Goodrich. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year. Marshall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. A. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Masonry) (a) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face. (b) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Naut.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A current of air. Same as Draught. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose. [ PJC ]

12. The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn. [ PJC ]

13. A device for regulating the flow of gases in a chimney, stovepipe, fireplace, etc.; as, to close the chimney draft. It is usually a flat plate of the same internal dimensions as the flue, which can be rotated to be parallel to or perpendicular to the current of gases. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught; as, a draft horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The forms draft and draught, in the senses above-given, are both in approved use. [ 1913 Webster ]

Draft box,
Draft engine,
Draft horse,
Draft net,
Draft ox,
Draft tube. Same as Draught box, Draught engine, etc. See under Draught. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Drafting. ] 1. To draw the outline of; to delineate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select; especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a population to serve in the armed forces. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

HotLips Houlihan: How did a degenerate person like him achieve such a position of responsibility in the army? Radar: He was drafted. M*A*S*H (the movie)

Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To transfer by draft. [ 1913 Webster ]

All her rents been drafted to London. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. writing a first version to be filled out and polished later. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the craft of drawing blueprints.
Syn. -- mechanical drawing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a creation of artistic drawings.
Syn. -- drawing, draftsmanship. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Draughtsman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the creation of artistic drawings.
Syn. -- drawing, drafting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.
Syn. -- draftsman, draughtsman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. not airtight; allowing in currents of air, especially uncomfortably cold air; -- of buildings.
Syn. -- draughty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. See Ingraft. Shak.

{ } n. The act of ingrafting; ingraftment. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. graff, F. greffe, originally the same word as OF. grafe pencil, L. graphium, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to write; prob. akin to E. carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Cf. Graphic, Grammar. ] (a) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit. (b) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. (c) (Surg.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. orig. so called because illegitimate or improper profit was looked upon as a graft, or sort of excrescence, on a legitimate business undertaking, in distinction from its natural proper development. ] 1. Acquisition of money, position, etc., by dishonest or unjust means, as by actual theft or by taking advantage of a public office or any position of trust or employment to obtain fees, perquisites, profits on contracts, legislation, pay for work not done or service not performed, etc.; illegal or unfair practice for profit or personal advantage; also, anything thus gained. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A “soft thing” or “easy thing;” a “snap.” [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Grafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grafting. ] [ F. greffer. See Graft, n. ] 1. To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. [ Formerly written graff. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union. [ 1913 Webster ]

And graft my love immortal on thy fame ! Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Hort.) The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument by which grafting is facilitated. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Hort.) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Carp.) A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cleft grafting (Hort.) a method of grafting in which the scion is placed in a cleft or slit in the stock or stump made by sawing off a branch, usually in such a manaer that its bark evenly joins that of the stock. --
Crown grafting or
Rind grafting, (Hort.) a method of grafting which the alburnum and inner bark are separated, and between them is inserted the lower end of the scion cut slantwise. --
Saddle grafting, a mode of grafting in which a deep cleft is made in the end of the scion by two sloping cuts, and the end of the stock is made wedge-shaped to fit the cleft in the scion, which is placed upon it saddlewise. --
Side grafting, a mode of grafting in which the scion, cut quite across very obliquely, so as to give it the form of a slender wedge, is thrust down inside of the bark of the stock or stem into which it is inserted, the cut side of the scion being next the wood of the stock. --
Skin grafting. (Surg.) See Autoplasty. --
Splice grafting (Hort.), a method of grafting by cutting the ends of the scion and stock completely across and obliquely, in such a manner that the sections are of the same shape, then lapping the ends so that the one cut surface exactly fits the other, and securing them by tying or otherwise. --
Whip grafting, tongue grafting, the same as splice grafting, except that a cleft or slit is made in the end of both scion and stock, in the direction of the grain and in the middle of the sloping surface, forming a kind of tongue, so that when put together, the tongue of each is inserted in the slit of the other. --
Grafting scissors, a surgeon's scissors, used in rhinoplastic operations, etc. --
Grafting tool. (a) Any tool used in grafting. (b) A very strong curved spade used in digging canals. --
Grafting wax, a composition of rosin, beeswax tallow, etc., used in binding up the wounds of newly grafted trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Handicraft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to make (something) by hand. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. made by hand or by a hand process. Contrasted to machine-made. [ Narrower terms: camp-made ; hand-loomed, handwoven ; handsewn, handstitched ; overhand, oversewn ) ]
Syn. -- handmade. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. -men A handicraftsman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For handcraft, influenced by handiwork; AS. handcræft. ] 1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -men A man skilled or employed in handcraft. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. skill in domestic management. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A vehicle that rides over water or land supported by the pressure of a stream of air generated by downward-thrusting fans, and is propelled forward by an air propeller; also called ACV and air-cushioned vehicle. [ Mostly found in Great Britain ] [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ingrafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ingrafting. ] [ Written also engraft. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; [ figuratively ], to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. [ 1913 Webster ]

This fellow would ingraft a foreign name
Upon our stock. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who ingrafts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of ingrafting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing ingrafted; a scion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of healing; skill of a physician. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To graft wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An article or articles created or assembled by needle and thread; needlework.
Syn. -- needlework. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The art, process, or occupation of creating objects with needles, such as in crocheting, embroidery, quilting, or tapestry. [ PJC ]