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(<i>n.</i>) Strength; might; secret power.<p>2. (<i>n.</i>) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.<p>3. (<i>n.</i>) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.<p>4. (<i>n.</i>) 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.<p>5. (<i>n.</i>) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.<p>6. 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