(n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
(v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
(v. t.) To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Colin Wiles is an independent housing consultant Interested in housing?
(2) It may be this that compels her to view every man she meets as an opportunity to test whether her wiles are still in full working order, probably unconsciously and probably even if they happen to be the partners of her female friends.
(3) Finance minister John Swinney told Good Morning Scotland he still hoped for a breakthrough at "this very, very, very late stage in the process", saying: Everybody is agreed that this plant has a strong future with the necessary investment and that is why the Scottish Government is wiling to be a player in that.
(4) Extracted from Our People by Iain Banks, from Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, edited by Rich Wiles, published by Pluto Press.
(5) But it does explain what might otherwise seem puzzling, that the many Evangelicals among them are perfectly wiling to overlook every transgression in Trump’s past and every crudeness and cruelty in his present conduct, and also to forgive in anticipation whatever future sin might be entailed in breaking up immigrant families or fomenting conflict abroad.
(6) We also do this with actors, comedians and musicians, because we are wiling to accept the “bad boy” persona as part of the act.
(7) After an arduous journey, usually through Thailand and the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia, they may end up in Puncak wiling away the time, bemoaning the UNHCR and listless days, playing soccer, and swapping stories of ingenious detention escapes.
(8) In their dreams (and in their long lunches with accountants and investors) the people farmers spin a trance-like spiel about a huge cohort of baby boomers soon to reach retirement, empty nesters without responsibilities, eager to wile away their twilight years in glorious consumption, placidly awaiting the dying of the light.
(9) When Warner had 89, Prior missed a second stumping off Swann, who used all his wiles to try to keep things in check, and was a strong contributing factor to Alastair Cook missing a catch, offered by the left-hander Rogers, wide to his right hand at first slip, that a confident keeper would have taken.
(10) Bayer Leverkusen beat Leicester City in race to sign Charles Aránguiz Read more Wolfsburg have so far insisted that they are not interested in selling a player signed last January from Chelsea for £18m, although it is understood that they would be wiling to do business at around £50m.
(11) His skill, wile and connections were insufficient, however, to allow him to survive indefinitely.
(12) "I don't blame the media and the Labour front bench for talking about U-turns but actually if more ministers were wiling to put forward proposals and then alter them in the light of evidence that came forth we'd actually have better government."
(13) Tripoli is an exception to this rule because the Lebanese disease of neglect of more distant regions has left the city captive to the wiles of radical Sunni groups and jihadists.
(14) The size and the extent of foliation of the chimeric cerebella were intermediate between wile-type and homozygous Staggerer.
(15) Wile pressor and reflex bradycardic responses to angiotensin II were not altered by prazosin, reflex tachycardia produced produced by histamine and acetylcholine were significantly attenuated by prazosin.
(16) Clegg will leave Brighton aware that his apology on tuition fees has not led to an immediate lift in his poll standing, but aware that most senior figures are wiling him to take the party into the next election, and broadly happy with his positioning of the party at the centre of the political spectrum.
(17) One depicted him as the Road Runner, Bartra the Wile E Coyote trailing in his wake.
(18) Charities are especially vulnerable – perhaps more so than businesses – to the wiles and charms of the next celebrity savior.
(19) One patient had a spontaneous remission during pregnancy wile taking propranolol.
(20) Stiviano's court filing rejected the idea that her “feminine wiles … overpowered the iron will of Donald T Sterling who is well known as one of the most shrewd businessmen in the world”.
Wilt
Definition:
() 2d pers. sing. of Will.
(v. i.) To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither.
(v. t.) To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid, as a green plant.
(v. t.) Hence, to cause to languish; to depress or destroy the vigor and energy of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfalfa plants of a resistant, a susceptible and a highly susceptible strains were grown in unlimed soil at pH 5.8 and in limed one at pH 6.9 and inoculated by the pathogens of vascular wilt, Corynebacterium insidiosum and Verticillium albo-atrum.
(2) Dwight Gayle converted with ease though, even then, Town refused to wilt.
(3) The balloons may have wilted and Nicholas Witchell's episiotomy stitches begun to heal, but the circus shows few signs of moving on.
(4) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
(5) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
(6) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
(7) Alfalfa, red clover, orchardgrass and timothy were harvested in the vegetative stage, wilted and stored as hay, or ensiled in small batch silos (20 kg) at 60, 40 or 20% (direct cut) dry matter and were analyzed for compositional differences.
(8) In the cells of wilted plants only 60% of the mRNA nucleotide sequences present in the controls are synthesized.
(9) Effects of wilting of grass prior to ensiling on OM intake, ruminal digestibility, efficiency of bacterial protein synthesis, and amount and composition of duodenal N fraction were examined using four lactating Holstein cows.
(10) Silage had a lower disappearance rate of CP than wilted grass.
(11) Most of the test fields had cultivated conventional brinjals previously and so they contained pathogens of bacterial wilt and fungus left over from those conventional crops, he said.
(12) Chelsea must rise to that challenge, and their refusal to wilt was heartening, prompting comparisons with Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, whose constant probing would often draw late rewards from apparent lost causes.
(13) The complete nucleotide sequence of the S RNA of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was determined.
(14) Some of our favourite things to stir in include: chickpeas and fried chorizo pieces; crisply fried smoked streaky bacon and frozen peas; chunks of aubergine fried in a pan, crumbled ricotta or cream cheese on top; capers and basil; chopped anchovies, a little cream and chopped rosemary; wilted rocket with crumbled feta on top; or chopped basil, a knob of butter, and a little balsamic.
(15) #USAvGER June 2, 2013 Germany have looked rather "wilted" in this last ten minutes.
(16) The synthesis of viral RNA species in tomato spotted wilt virus-infected Nicotiana rustica plants was followed in terms of time and relative abundance.
(17) Fiber-associated protein increased markedly with increases in DM during wilting, and these differences were present in the mature silage of both ryegrass and alfalfa.
(18) Complementary DNA to the genomic RNA of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was synthesized and cloned in either pUC19 or lambda gt10.
(19) While a less crushing defeat is expected this time, analysts are not predicting significant gains for fragmented, uninspired opponents that have wilted under the EPRDF’s glare.
(20) Bolton’s Shola Ameobi ends drought as Steve Evans’ Leeds earn a point Read more Elsewhere in west London, another dark, gloomy cloud was lifted from over another wilting manager.