beguile (3 first in S.; 4 peculiar to S.)
2.
to cheat, disappoint
(hopes) Gent. V. iv. 64.
3.
to divert attention
in some pleasant way from (anything disagreeable),
while away (time)
Tw.N. III. iii. 41
“Whiles you beguile the
time,”
Tit. IV. i. 35
“And so beguile thy
sorrow.”
4.
to disguise
Lucr. 1544
“Tarquin . . . so
beguil'd With outward honesty.”
