wilel (wil)

[ OF. guile, > E. guile: see guile1).] A trick or stratagem; anything practised for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice. Bot hit is no ferly, thaz a fole madde, And thurz wyles of wymmen be wonen to sorge. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2415. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11. Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles , Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek. Milton, L'Allegro, 1. 27. Syn. Manœuver, Stratagem , etc. See artifice. wilel (wil), v . t.; pret. and pp. wiled , ppr. wil ing . [ wile1 , n.] 1. To deceive; beguile; impose on. So perfect in that art was Paridell That he Malbeccoes halfen eye did wyle ; His halfen eye he wiled wondrous well. Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 5. The Wildgrave winds his bugle-horn, To horse, to horse! halloo, halloo! Say, whence is yond warlow with his wand, That thus wold wyle oure folk away? Towneley Mysteries , p. 60. She wiled him into ae chamber, She wiled him into twa.