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Cun"ning, n. [AS. cunnung
trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See Cunning,
a.] 1. Knowledge; art;
skill; dexterity. [Archaic]

Let my right hand forget her cunning.

Ps. cxxxvii. 5.

A carpenter's desert

Stands more in cunning than in power.

Chapman.

2. The faculty or act of using stratagem
to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit;
craft.

Discourage cunning in a child;
cunning is the ape of wisdom.

Locke.

We take cunning for a sinister or crooked
wisdom.

Bacon.

Cun"ning*ly (k?n"n?ng-l?), adv.
In a cunning manner; with cunning.

Cun"ning*man` (-m?n`), n. A
fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.


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