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Webster 1913 Edition

Guile

Guile

,
Noun.
[OE.
guile
,
gile
, OF.
guile
; of German origin, and the same word as E.
wile
. See
Wile
.]
Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no
guile
.
John i. 47.
To wage by force or
guile
eternal war.
Milton.

Guile

,
Verb.
T.
[OF.
guiler
. See
Guile
,
Noun.
]
To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Guile

GUILE

,
Noun.
gile. Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense.
We may, with more successful hope, resolve
To wage by force or guile eternal war.
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John.1.

GUILE

,
Verb.
T.
To disguise craftily.

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