(n.) Strength; might; secret power.
(n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment;
hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
(n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as,
the craft of ironmongers.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a
collective sense.
(v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.