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    wile
    [wīl]
    noun
    wiles (plural noun)
    1. devious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants:
      "she didn't employ any feminine wiles to capture his attention" · "the devious wiles of the politicians"
    verb
    wiles (third person present)
    1. archaic
      lure; entice:
      "she could be neither driven nor wiled into the parish kirk"
    2. (wile something away)
      another way of saying while (see while).
      "the gang had played monopoly as they wiled away the hours"
    Origin
    Middle English: perhaps from an Old Norse word related to vél ‘craft’.
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