noun a cunning or artful fellow.
2. artificer ·noun one who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
3. artificer ·noun an artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
4. artificer ·noun a military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, ·etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, ·etc., in a military laboratory.