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.