Word Meanings - MASONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.
Related words: (words related to MASONIC)
- CRAFTY
1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily. - CRAFTER
a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman. - CRAFTLESS
Without craft or cunning. Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor. - CRAFTINESS
Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13. - CRAFTSMANSHIP
The work of a craftsman. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - CRAFT
A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense. The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson. Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets. (more info) OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft - CRAFTSMAN
One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic. - CRAFTILY
With craft; artfully; cunningly. - CRAFTSMASTER
One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning. In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. Holland. - THEIR
The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham. - KINGCRAFT
The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott. - WITCRAFT
1. Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. Camden. 2. The art of reasoning; logic. - PENCRAFT
1. Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography. 2. The art of composing or writing; authorship. I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft. S - STARCRAFT
Astrology. Tennyson. - WITCHCRAFT
1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - HANDCRAFT
See HANDICRAFT - HANDICRAFT
1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Addison. 2. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. Dryden. - WOODCRAFT
Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods. Men of the glade and forest! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight. Bryant. - WATER CRAFT
Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively. - SMITHCRAFT
The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh. - LEECHCRAFT
The art of healing; skill of a physician. Chaucer.