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Word Meanings - DEVILRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry. Stark lies and devilry. Sir T. More. 2. The whole body of evil spirits. Tylor.

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  • STARK
    stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. stærk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gastaúrknan to become dried up, Lith. strëgti to stiffen, to freeze. 1. Stiff; rigid. Chaucer. Whose senses all
  • DEVILET
    A little devil. Barham.
  • DEVILESS
    A she-devil. Sterne.
  • DEVILISM
    The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. Bp. Hall.
  • DEVILISH
    1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15. 2. Extreme; excessive.
  • EXTREMELESS
    Having no extremes; infinite.
  • DEVILFISH
    A huge ray of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. The gray whale
  • WHOLENESS
    The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
  • WHOLE-HOOFED
    Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
  • DEVILWOOD
    A kind of tree , allied to the European olive.
  • CONDUCTIVITY
    The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
  • STARKLY
    In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly. Its onward force too starky pent In figure, bone, and lineament. Emerson.
  • WHOLESALE
    1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
  • DEVILING
    A young devil. Beau. & Fl.
  • CONDUCTRESS
    A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
  • CONDUCTOR
    The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
  • WHOLE-SOULED
    Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
  • DEVIL'S DARNING-NEEDLE
    A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.
  • CONDUCTIBILITY
    1. Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity. 2. Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.
  • CONDUCT
    1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham. 2. Skillful guidance or management; generalship. Conduct
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
  • VAUDEVILLE
    where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such 1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
  • SWINGDEVIL
    The European swift.
  • WATER DEVIL
    The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
  • NONCONDUCTING
    Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
  • MISCONDUCT
    Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
  • UNWHOLE
    Not whole; unsound.

 

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