Skill, ingenuity. Also in a negative sense: cunning, craft, artifice (cf. engine, n. 1a). Obsolete.

Designing, skilful devising, ingenuity; passing into the bad sense of craft, subtilty, cunning. In later use closely associated with the verb in…

Practical talent or cleverness; constructive or mechanical ability; ingenuity, skill. Obsolete as a specific sense.

Manner of construction; devising, design; craft. Obsolete.

The action of devising, contriving, or planning; the faculty of devising, inventive faculty; invention, ingenuity. Now archaic and rare. (originally…

Innate ability; ingenuity. Obsolete.

Technical skill; artistry, ingenuity.

Ingenuity, subtle intelligence. rare.

The quality of being ingenious; cleverness, ingenuity.

The quality of being ingenious; ingenuity.

Used by confusion for ingeniousness (= ingenuity, n. II.). Obsolete.

Capacity for invention or construction; skill or cleverness in contriving or making something (material or immaterial). Also as attribute of the…

The faculty or ability of contriving; inventive capacity.

The quality of being artful; skill, dexterity; (also) craftiness, cunning.

Contriving faculty; = contrivance, n. 5.