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Wright's OE grammar
§54; §295; §310; §335;
Dele '
a craft, kind of ship; navis qualiscunque,'
and add under
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  • Mid eallum Créca cræftum universam Graeciae lectam juventutem, Ors. 1, 10; S. 46, 31. Under II :-- Hé leornode sumne cræft þe hine áfét, Hml. Th. ii. 556, 32. Under III :-- Hié wénað ðæt hiera unðeáwas sién sum gód cræft

    vitium virtus creditur,

      Past. 289, 13.

  • Hearpestrengas mid cræfte ástirian,

      Ap. Th. 17, 8.

  • Cræftas

    studia,

      An. Ox. 9, 8.

  • Lárlice cræftas scholares disciplinas, 42. III a. in a bad sense,

    a cunning trick, stratagem, artifice

    :-- Mid þǽm cræfte þe þá scondlicost wæs . . . þysne nyttan cræft, þéh hé árlic nǽre, funde heora tictator,
      Ors. 2, 8; S. 90, 28-92, 3.

  • Wíf gif heó mid hwylcum cræfte (

    molimine

    ) hire hǽmed gerénað,
      Ll. Th. ii. 156, 7.

  • Gif hé þurh druncen oððe þurh óðerne cræft (

    alio artificio

    ) man ofsleá,
      150, 34.
a machine, instrument, engine
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  • Æþele cræft (

    of a medicine

    ),
      Lch. ii. 28, 10.

  • Hé hæfde án wurðlic weorc on mechanisc geweorc . . . Se cræft sceolde wissian be steorrum hwæt gehwilcum menn gelumpe, . . . on þám cræfte áspende mín fæder má þonne twá hund punda . . . Gif þú þisne cræft healst . . . Hé nolde geþafian ꝥ man swá deórwurðne cræft (cf. weorc, 287) tócwýsan sceolde,

      Hml. S. 5, 253, 263, 266, 290.

  • Tóbærst seó hengen mid eallum ðám cræfte,

      35, 314.

  • Þæne mænifealdan cræft

    multiformem (favorum) machinam,

      An. Ox. 120.

  • Cræftas

    machinas,

    1668. v. circul-, gedwol-, gramati(s)c-, meter-, morþ-, swég-, tæl-, tów-, wicg-, wynde-cræft.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cræft.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/42100.

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