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cunning : 英英辞書
Cun"ning
(kn"nng), a.[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.
Cun"ning
n.[AS. cunnung trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See Cunning, a.]
1. 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.
2. 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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