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[Etym. unknown.] A kind of shell-fish le than an oyster, that sticks close to the rocks. ( Ains worth.) *cunnes-man, s. [KINSMAN.] A kinsman, a relation. IMG:content-1547.png:[blocks in formation] "And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, ."-2 Chron . xxvi. 15. (3) Precocious; roguish; interesting; as, we say of a sprightly little boy, "The cunning little rogue. ( U. S. Colloq .) 2. In a bad sense: Artful, crafty, sly, designing, shrewd, astute. the supple and slippery consciences of cun ning priests,."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xv. II. Of things: 1. Made or wrought with skill and art, ingenious, curious. "To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bra ." - Exod . xxx i. 4. 2. Artful, crafty, sly. "With all the cunning manner of our flight, Determined of." IMG:content-1548.png:[blocks in formation] wiline . Shakesp: Timon , iv. 3. 3. Art, craft, artfulne , artifice, shrewdne , "Cunning is the natural defense of the weak."- Ma caulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. i. Crabb thus discriminates between cunning, crafty, subtle, sly, and wily : "The cunning man shows his dexterity simply in concealing: this requires little more than reservedne and taciturnity; the crafty man goes farther; he shapes his words and actions so as to lull suspicion: hence it is that a child may be cunning but an an old man will be crafty ; a subtle man has more acutene of in the cunning man looks vention than either IMG:content-1549.png:[blocks in formation] "A stately pallace built of squared bricke, Which cunningly was without morter laid." Spenser: F. Q., I. iv. 4. fully, slyly, wilily, craftily. 2. In a cunning, artful, or crafty manner; art "But, good my lord, do it so cunningly, That my discovery be not aimed at." Shakesp.: Two Gent. of Ver . , iii. 1. cun'-ning-ne , s. [Eng. cunning; -ne .] Cun- ning, art, artfulne , craft, wiline . "But mine is such a drench of balderdash, Such a strange carded cunningne ." *cun-ny, s. [CONY.] IMG:content-1550.png:[blocks in formation] *cunny-catch, v . t . [CONY-CATCH.] "He will not suffer himself to be cunny-catcht."- S. Lennard: Of Wisdome , bk. ii., ch. i., § 4, p. 212 (1670).