\Craft\ (kr[.a]ft), n. [AS. cr[ae]ft 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.
2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment;
   hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a
   trade.
         Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
                                               --Acts xix.
                                               25.
         A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill
         or craft of making.                   --B. Jonson.
         Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and
         nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in
         repute.                               --Longfellow.
3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild;
   as, the craft of ironmongers.
         The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds
         to the new craft guilds.              --J. R. Green.
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.
         You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.
                                               --Hobbes.
         The chief priets and the scribes sought how they
         might take him by craft, and put him to death.
                                               --Mark xiv. 1.
5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used
   in a collective sense.
         The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving
         over the lake.                        --Prof.
                                               Wilson.
{Small crafts}, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.

\Craft\, v. t.
To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]
      You have crafted fair.                   --Shak.