Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make or adorn cunningly.
  • noun Cleverness; artfulness; cunning; craft.
  • noun Elegance; beauty; neatness; trimness; daintiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Craft; subtlety; cunning.
  • noun obsolete Elegance; beauty.

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  • n. - ingenuity, cunning; a trick or stratagem

    May 16, 2008