wile

noun

1. (plural-normally)A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

   “He was seduced by her wiles.”

   “"Anything interesting among your letters, Geoffrey?" asked Miss Tilehurst, concealing a protective curiosity under this sociable wile, since she had already inspected the covers.”

   “to frustrate all our plots and wiles”

   “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.”

verb

1. (transitive)To entice or lure.

   “He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree.”

2. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”).

   “Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.”

   ““A fear of what?” asked the gentleman, who seemed to pity her. “I scarcely know of what,” replied the girl. “I wish I did. Horrible thoughts of death, and shrouds with blood upon them, and a fear that has made me burn as if I was on fire, have been upon me all day. I was reading a book to-night, to wile the time away, and the same things came into the print.””

name

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
2. (rare)A male given name transferred from the surname.