Webster’s 1913 has no entry under this spelling.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for ill will; he lists it under enmity, hatred.
Where he writes about it:
Malice involves the active intent to injure; in the legal sense, malice is the intent to injure, even tho with no personal ill will; as, a highwayman would be said to entertain malice toward the unknown traveler whom he attacks. — from hatred