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rtifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure. The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Gen. iii. 13.

The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

One who, or that which, beguiles.

To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.

stic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

To keep in extraction; to beguile; to delude. He amused his followers with idle promises. Johnson.

To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate. [Obs.] Some ecstasy assotted had his sense. Spenser.

To beguile. Sir W. Scott. To cheat winter of its dreariness. W. Irving.

To cheat; to defrand; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. He had cozened the world by fine phrases. Macualay. Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. Locke. Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. C…

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.

se 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.

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

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

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

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

Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" (i.e., kisses). Shak.

n of change of opinion; recantation. Other men's insatiable desire of revenge hath wholly beguiled both church and state of the benefit of all my either retractions or Eikon Basilike.

An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt. [Obs.] Cotgrave.