Hypertext Webster Gateway: "guile"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Guile \Guile\, n. [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Guile \Guile\, v. t. [OF. guiler. See {Guile}, n.]
To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
guile
n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
[syn: {craft}, {craftiness}, {cunning}, {foxiness}, {slyness},
{wiliness}]
2: the quality of being crafty [syn: {craftiness}, {deceitfulness}]
3: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
money from them) [syn: {trickery}, {chicanery}, {wile}, {shenanigan}]
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