guile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: guile	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for guile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guile n shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception Synonym(s): craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness the quality of being crafty Synonym(s): craftiness, deceitfulness, guile the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) Synonym(s): trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
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.