Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works

cunning knowing, skilful: “cunning men,” THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, i. 1. 97 ; “cunning schoolmasters,” THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, i. 1. 182 ; “Cunning in music,” THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii. 1. 56 ; “cunning in Greek,” THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii. 1. 80 ; “Nature's own sweet and cunning hand,” TWELFTH NIGHT, i. 5. 224 ; “cunning in fence,” TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4. 271 ; “wherein cunning, but in craft?” 1 HENRY IV., ii. 4. 441 ; “Margery Jourdain, the cunning witch,” 2 HENRY VI., i. 2. 75 ; “A cunning man did calculate my birth,” 2 HENRY VI., iv. 1. 34 (a wizard, an astrologer); “cunning cooks,” ROMEO AND JULIET, iv. 2. 2.