Artificer

·noun A cunning or artful fellow.

II. Artificer ·noun One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.

III. Artificer ·noun An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

IV. Artificer ·noun A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, ·etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, ·etc., in a military laboratory.