wile, wyle

[A. S. wil, vile; cogn. with Icel. vél, væl an artifice, craft, trick, wile. Wile and guile are doublets.] [GUILE, 8. ] A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice. "Thy looks, thy cunning, and thy wiles ." Words worth: Poems on the Affections. wile, v . t . [WILE, 8.] *1. To deceive, to beguile, to trick, to impose on. "He Malbeccoes halfen eye did wile." Spenser: F. Q., III. x. 5. 2. To cajole, to wheedle. (Scotch.) 3. To draw or turn away, as by diverting the mind; to cause to pa pleasantly; to while away. "In talk and sport they wiled away The morning of that summer day." Scott : Lady of the Lake, ii. 27. wil-fül, will-ful, *wyl-ful, *wylle-ful, adj. [Eng. will (1); -ful ( l ).] *1. Voluntary; done or suffered voluntarily or by design; in accordance with one's free will. -Foxe . B. As substantive: 1. A plant that is wild or grows without cultivacommands, instructions, .; obstinate, perverse, tion, as a crab-apple. "There is a kind of crab tree also or wilding , that in like manner beareth twice a yeere." -P . Holland : Pliny , bk. xvi., ch. xxvii. 2. The fruit of such a plant. "Oft from the forest wildings he did bring, Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red." Spenser: F. Q. , III. vii. 17. wild-ish, a. [Eng. wild ; -ish.] Somewhat or ing to the Cynometrese (q. v.). wild-tansy, s. Bot.: Potentilla an serin a. [SILVER-WEED.] wild-thyme, s. Bot.: Thymus serpyllum. [THYMUS.]