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With anxious care and crafty wiles.

J. Baillie.

Syn. -- Skillful; dexterous; cunning; artful; wily;
sly; fraudulent; deceitful; subtle; shrewd. See
Cunning.

Crag (krăg), n. [W.
craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak,
Armor. karrek.] 1. A steep, rugged
rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a
ledge.

From crag to crag the signal
flew.

Sir W. Scott.

2. (Geol.) A partially compacted
bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

Crag, n. [A form of craw:
cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen. See
Craw.] 1. The neck or throat
[Obs.]

And bear the crag so stiff and so
state.

Spenser.

2. The neck piece or scrag of
mutton. Johnson.

Crag"ged (-g&ebreve;d), a.
Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with
prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.


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