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; 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.

Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. -- Guile"ful*ness, n.

Free from guile; artless. -- Guile"less*ly, adv. Guile"less*ness, n.

To delude by guile, artifice, 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.

ic 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.

; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.

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

Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's e…

In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope.

The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.

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

Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting. -- Be*guil"ing*ly, adv.

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

One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child of nature, without guile. Cowper.

disguised. How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton

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…

Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices. You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. Hobbes. The chief priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mar…