clever

Good-natured, obliging. In Great Britain, a clever man is a dextrous man, one who performs an act with skill or address. Mr. Pickering says, that 'in speaking of anything but man, we use the word much as the English do. We say a clever horse, &c.; and it is common to see in the London newspapers advertisements in this form--"To be sold, a clever gray gelding," &c.

A choice of ministers and diplomatic agents constitutes one of the most important duties of a wise and clever monarch.--Millengen, Mind and Matter, 1847.

The landlord of the hotel was a very clever man, and made me feel quite at home in his house.--Crockett's Tour down East, p. 22.