D[ae]dal

Daedal \D[ae]"dal\, Daedalian \D[ae]*dal"ian\, a. [L. daedalus
   cunningly wrought, fr. Gr. ?; cf. ? to work cunningly. The
   word also alludes to the mythical D[ae]dalus (Gr. ?, lit.,
   the cunning worker).]
   1. Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful;
      artistic; ingenious.
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            Our bodies decked in our d[ae]dalian arms.
                                                  --Chapman.
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            The d[ae]dal hand of Nature.          --J. Philips.
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            The doth the d[ae]dal earth throw forth to thee,
            Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. --Spenser.
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   2. Crafty; deceitful. [R.] --Keats.
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125 Moby Thesaurus words for "daedal":
      Byzantine, Daedalian, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative,
      balled up, bicolor, bicolored, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever,
      colorful, colory, complex, complicated, confounded, confused,
      convoluted, coordinated, crabbed, crack, crackerjack, crazy,
      cunning, cute, deft, devious, dexterous, dextrous, dichromatic,
      diplomatic, divers-colored, elaborate, embrangled, entangled,
      excellent, expert, fancy, fouled up, good, goodish, gordian,
      graceful, handy, harlequin, implicated, ingenious, intricate,
      involuted, involved, kaleidoscopic, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian,
      labyrinthine, loused up, magisterial, many-colored, many-faceted,
      masterful, masterly, matted, mazy, meandering, medley, messed up,
      mixed up, motley, mucked up, multicolor, multicolored,
      multicolorous, multifarious, neat, no mean, parti-color,
      parti-colored, perplexed, politic, polychromatic, polychrome,
      polychromic, prismal, professional, proficient, quick, quite some,
      ramified, ready, resourceful, roundabout, screwed up, shot,
      shot through, skillful, slick, snarled, some, sophisticated,
      spectral, statesmanlike, stylish, subtle, tactful, tangled, tangly,
      the compleat, the complete, thunder and lightning, trichromatic,
      trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, twisted, two-tone, varicolored,
      variegated, versicolor, versicolored, virtuoso, well-done,
      workmanlike