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and falsifying the balances by deceit. Amos viii. 5. Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. Milton. Yet still we hug the dear deceit. N. Cotton.

To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception. These occupations oftentimes deceived The listless hour. Wordsworth.

To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of. To delude the nation by an airy phantom. Burke.

osperity, or beauty of; to kill. If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert. Milton.

common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.

A diversity of direction; detachment. [Obs.] His power went out in such distractions as Beguiled all species. Shak.

To rend; to tear. [Obs.] Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. Spenser.

things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life. Our weary souls by earth beguiled. Keble.

Guile. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A guiler; deceiver. [Obs.]

A deceiver; one who deludes, or uses guile. [Obs.] Spenser.

To guile. [Obs.] Spenser.

ing, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. Shak.

dness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1 Tim. ii. 2.

To allure; to lay a bait for. [Obs.] To inescate and beguile young women! Burton.

s or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton.

Unbecoming a knight. [Obs.] "Knightless guile." Spenser.

Evil machination; guile; deceit. [Obs.] Gower.

to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they obtain. Dryden. By guileful fair words peace may be obtained. Shak. It may be that I may obtain children by her. Gen. xvi. 2.

One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.