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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

I. A general term, now commonly applied to all kinds of sailing vessels, , though formerly restricted to the smaller vessels.

The Wenonah, 21 Grat (Va.) 697; Reed v. Ingham, 3 El. & B. 898. 2.

A trade or occupation of the sort requiring skill and training, particularly manual skill combined with a knowledge of the principles of the art; also the body of persons pursuing such a calling; a gulld.

Gan-ahl v. Shore, 24 Ga. 23. 3.

Guile, artful cunning, trickiness. Not a legal term in this sense, though often used in connection with such terms as "fraud" and "artifice."