CUNNING (2)

cunning (2)|cunningness. Cunning, or Cunningness, n. artifice, sliness, skill

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Cun″ning, n. [[AS. cunnung trial, or Icel. kunnandi knowledge. See Cunning, a.]] 1. 1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
Let my right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. A carpenter's desert Stands more in cunning than in power. Chapman. 2. 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.