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.
Related words: (words related to DEVILRY)
- 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.