1. (a.) Knowing; skillful; dexterous.

2. (a.) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.

3. (a.) Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.

4. (a.) Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.

5. (a.) Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.

6. (n.) The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.