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cunning

1. [söz] hile [Umumy]

2. [söz] sap [Umumy]

3. [söz] şeýtanlyk [Umumy]

4. [söz] hilegärlik [Umumy]

5. [söz] hokga [Umumy]

cunning

a. [AS. cunnan to know, to be able. See 1st Con, Can.]1. Knowing; skillful; dexterous. ( 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 (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. (Barlett.)

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n. [AS. cunnung trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See Cunning, a.]1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. ()

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.)