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- CRAF'TINESS, f. Cunning; ftratagem.—He take th 
the wife in their own craftinefs. Job. 
CRAFTS'MAN, f An artificer; a manufacturer ; a 
mechanic.—What a refemblance this advice carries to 
the oration of Demetrius to his fellow craftfnen! Decay 
of Piety. 
That her became, as polifh’d ivory, 
Which cunning craftfman's hand hath overlaid 
With fair vermillion. Spcnfer. 
CRAFTS'MASTER,/! A man {killed in his trade. 
—There is art in pride : a man might as foon learn a 
trade. Thofe who were not brought up to it, feldom 
prove their craftfmajler. Collier on Pride. 
CRAF'TY, adj. Cunning; artful; full of artifices; 
fraudulent; fly.—Nobody was ever fo cunning as to 
conceal their being fo ; and every body is fhy and dif- 
truftful-of crafty men. Locke. 
Before he came in fight, the crafty god 
His wings difmifs’d, but Hill retain’d his rod. Dryden. 
CRAF'TY-SICK, adj. Craftily pretending to be fick: 
Where Hotfpur’s father, old Northumberland, 
Lies crafly-fick. Shakcfpeare. 
CRAG,/. Crag is, in Britifh, a rough fteep rock; 
and is ufed in the fame fenfe in the northern counties at 
this day. Gibfon. —The rugged protuberances of rocks: 
And as mount Etna vomits fulphur out, 
With clifts of burning crags , and fire and fmoke. Fairfax. 
The neck : 
They looken bigge, as bulls that been bate, 
And bearen the crag fo ftiff and fo ftate. Spcnfcr. 
The final 1 end of a neck of mutton : a low word. 
CRAG'GED, adj. Full of inequalities and promi¬ 
nences : 
On a huge hill, 
Cragged and deep, truth hands. Crafiaw. 
CRAG'GEDNESS, /. Fulnefs of crags or prominent 
rocks.—The craggedncjs or fteepnefs of that mountain, 
maketh many parts of it in a manner inacceffible Brcrcwood. 
CRAG'GINESS, f. The ftate of being craggy. 
CRAG'GY, adj. Rugged ;'full of prominences; 
rough to walk on, or climb.—The town and republic of 
St. Marino ftands on the top of a very high and craggy 
mountain. Aaafori. 
His dwelling low, in an hollow cave, 
Far underneath a craggy clift ypight, 
Dark, doleful, dreary, like a greedy grave. Spcnfer. 
CRAI'BURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Bavaria : ten miles north-eaft of Waflerburg. 
CRAICH, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Rhine, oppofite Spire. 
CRAIG (Nicholas), or Cragius, born about the year 
1541, at Ripen, was regent of the fchool of Copenhagen 
in 1576. His turn for bufinefs procured him ‘the ma¬ 
nagement of feveral important negotiations, which he 
terminated much to the fatisfadlion of the king of Den¬ 
mark. He died in 1602, at the age of fixty-one, leaving 
a Latin work, in high repute, on the republic of the La¬ 
cedemonians, firft printed in 1592, and then at Leyden in 
1670, octavo ; and the Annals of Denmark, in fix books, 
from the death of Frederic I. to the year 1550. They 
were reprinted at Copenhagen in 1737, folio. 
CRAIG (fir Thomas), born at Edinburgh in 1548, 
ftudied the civil law in tire univerfity of Paris. While 
very young he was called to the bar, and his practice 
was very great. He wrote a learned treatife on the feu¬ 
dal law, entituled, Jus Feudale, which is in great efteem. 
In 1535 he wrote a treatife on the fovereignty of Scot¬ 
land. In 1602 he publiihed a large treatife in folio, to 
prove the legality of James’s fucceflion to the crown of 
England on the death of queen Elizabeth. His book 
on the feudal law is elleemed all over the continent of 
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Europe, and often quoted both by hiftorians and lawyers. 
He died at Edinburgh in 1C0S, aged fixty. 
CRAIG (James, M. A.), born at Gifford in Eaft Lo¬ 
thian', in 1682, and educated in the univerfity cf Edin¬ 
burgh, where he took his degrees, and was ordained mi- 
nifter. He wrote a volume of divine poems, which have 
gone through two editions, and are much efteemed. In 
Edinburgh he was followed as one of the moll popular 
preachers; and he publiihed three volumes of fermons in 
odlavo, chiefly on the principal heads of chriftiar.ity ; 
which arc now become fcarce. He died at Edinburgh in 
1744, aged fixty-two. 
CRAIG (John), a Scotch mathematician, who made 
his name fapious by a final 1 work in quarto, intituled, 
Tkeologice Chrifianaz principia Math'cmatica. It v. r as printed 
at London in 1699, and reprinted at Leipfic in 1755, 
with a preface upon the life and works of Craig. 
CRAIG-AL'VIE, a mountain of Scotland, in the 
fouth-well part of the county of Murray, a little to the 
north of the river Spey. 
CRAIG-DA'RIE, a cape of Scotland, on the eaft 
coaft of the county of Kincardine. 
^ CRAIG-I.EITH, a fmall illand of Scotland, in the 
Frith of Forth, about a mile north of North Berwick. 
CR AIG-LO'GAN, a cape of Scotland, on the north- 
welt extremity of the county of Wigton : nine miles 
north-north-weft of Strathrawer. 
CRAl'GAN, a. mountain of Scotland, in the county 
of Perth : fifteen miles north-weft of Perth. 
CRAIGBEN'YON, a mountain of Scotland, in the 
county of Perth : three miles north-eaft of Callender. 
CRAIGCHO'NICHAN, a place of Scotland, near 
Kincardine, in Rofsfhire, where the marquis of Montrofe 
was defeated by colonel Strachan. 
CRAIGEN'DIVE, a fmall illand, near the weft coaft 
of Scotland, four miles eaft from the illand of Jura. 
CRAIG'GAG POINT, a cape of Scotland, on the 
eaft coaft of the county of Sutherland: fixteen miles 
north-eaft of Dornach. 
CRAI'GOW, a mountain of Scotland, in the county 
of Invernefs : eighteen miles eaft of Fort Auguftus. 
CRAIL, a town of Scotland, in the county of Fife, 
remarkable for a battle fought here between the Danes 
and the Scots : eight miles l’outh-eaft of St. Andrew’s. 
CRAIL,/! Anenginemade ufe of to catch fifli. Blount . 
CRAIN, or Crainburg, a town of Germany, in-the 
duchy of Carniolu, on the Save, which contains five 
churches and a convent: twenty miles v/eft of Laubach, 
and thirty north of Triefte. 
CRAIN'BERG, a mountain of Carnioia: fix miles 
north-w'eft of Feldes. 
CRAIN'FIELD, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and principality of Upper Heffe ; 
fourteen miles weft of Fulda. 
CRA'KANTHORPE (Richard), born at Strickland 
in Weftmoreland, in the fixteenth century, and admitted 
in queen’s college, Oxford, where he was afterwards fel¬ 
low. When James I. lent lord Evers ambaflador to the 
emperor, Mr. Crakanthorp went with him as chaplain ; 
and upon his return, he w r as chaplain to the bilhop of 
London, and prefented to the redtory of Black-Notley. 
He had the reputation of being a great fcholar, and was 
perfectly acquainted with eccleliaftical antiquity, and 
fcholaftic divinity. He died in 1624, at his redtory of 
Black-Notley. His works are : 1. Juftinian the Emperor 
defended aguinft Cardinal Baronius, 2. IntroduClio in Mc~ 
taph)ficam, Wb. 4. 3. A Defence of Conftantine, with a 
Treatife of the Pope’s temporal Monarchy. 4. Defaifo 
Ecclefiaz Anglicanaz.. 5. Vigtlius Dormitans ; or, a Treatife 
of the Fifth general Council held at Conllantinople, 
ann. 553. 6 . Logicce libri quinque, &c. 
CRA'KAU, or Kroka, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and margraviate of Meiffen : 
nineteen miles north-north-eaft of Drefden. 
CRAKE,/! [cjtecca, Sax. crepido.J A boaft.—Lea- 
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