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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wile \Wile\, n. [OE. wile, AS w[=i]l; cf Icel. v?l, v[ae]l.
Cf {Guile}.]
A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a
sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to
stand against the wiles of the devil. --Eph. vi 11.
Not more almighty to resist our might Than wise to
frustrate all our plots and wiles. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wile \Wile\, v. t.
1. To practice artifice upon to deceive; to beguile; to
allure. [R.] --Spenser.
2. To draw or turn away as by diversion; to while or while
away to cause to pass pleasantly. --Tennyson.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wile
n : the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
money from them) [syn: {trickery}, {chicanery}, {guile},
{shenanigan}]
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