Thursday, March 16, 2006

Words: guile [AHED]

NOUN: 1. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit. 2. Obsolete A trick or stratagem.
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: guiled, guilĀ·ing, guiles
Archaic To beguile; deceive.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English wigle, divination, sorcery.

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