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Wile   /waɪl/   Listen
noun
Wile  n.  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." "Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles."


verb
Wile  v. t.  
1.
To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure. (R.)
2.
To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.





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"Wile" Quotes from Famous Books



... when you are pleased I catch the hint Of a purr in your throat and face. Then I wonder if you are dreaming, too, Of temples along the Nile, Where you yowled and howled, and loved and prowled, With many a sensuous wile, And borrowed the grace you own today From that other life in the far-away; And if such ...
— Bohemian San Francisco - Its restaurants and their most famous recipes--The elegant art of dining. • Clarence E. Edwords
... and Kerry there 's many a mile; They 've right men in Derry, no doubt; But give me the Kerry man's blarneying smile, And give me the Kerry girl's conjuring wile, And lips, like a peach, ...
— Sprays of Shamrock • Clinton Scollard
... the like o' that, laird?' said Saddletree to Dumbiedikes, when the counsel had ended his speech. 'There's a chiel can spin a muckle pirn out o' a wee tait o' tow!... And he's cleckit this great muckle bird out o' this wee egg! He could wile the very flounders out o' ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop
... from her intellectual dilemma by a simple and purely feminine wile—she refused to believe that he ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... over the hunting grounds of his fathers. Then a fierce determination took possession of his savage heart. For years he matured his plans, and watched the favorable moment to crush every living stranger at a blow. He took all his people into counsel, and such was their fidelity, and so deep the wile of the Indian chief, that, during four years of preparation, no warning reached the intended victims. To the last fatal moment, a studied semblance of cordial friendship was observed; some Englishmen, who had lost their way in the woods were kindly and carefully ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton


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