DEV 
devil. The Ethiopians paint the devil white, ito pe even 
with the Europeans, who paint i black. - 
Deviri in a a in Botany e NIGEL 
lts rae are 
of about a foot, aus 
on having fine cut leav 
fimilar to thofe of Dill. The flowere are blue, but the feeds 
are of a blackifh colour, and rough; from which circum- 
“ see are ica injurious to ea ae when ground with 
Fro ing an annual plant, it may be readily extir- 
ane) by, ‘being pulled up - the a seas it flower. 
’s Bit, in Botany. See Scazi 
11s Lit, in Agriculture, a name elaty applied toa 
weed eich elts ao corn and pafture, or meadow-lands, 
4 ee puis ale), It 
rennial r 
branching out at the 
roots 
Devic! s Bit, yellow, in Botany. See Leontop 
tu’s Guts, in Agriculture, a name often ul scity applied 
to bindoweed ( ee chil id 
Tlands eography, are _ 
ica he moft confiderable of which bea 
oura, which form the extremity of a as of iflands 
and rocks, placed before the entrance - the gulf of Salo- 
nica, and extending to the eaft, from the great promontory 
of Volo, the ancient CEantium of Theflaly, till it faces 
mount Athos. 
Devix’s Lfland, an ifland of America, on the eaft fide of 
Chefapeak bay, in sire county, Maryland, between 
as bay and Nanokin 
vit, Le of, one of the ‘fnaller Molucca iflands. 
Devivs Mouth, a name given by failors to a fr ightful 
volcano, near Leon Nicar » in New Spain, feated near 
the lake. N. lat. 13° ro. W long. 65° 10’, 
Devir’s Nofe, a pro oes on the fouth fide of lake 
Ontario, 16 miles E. of Fifhing bay, and 23 N. W. of the 
mouth of Geneffee river. 
os 
EVIL, Sea, Diabolus marinus, in Ichthyology, the name 
of an ugly and ftrangely ill-fhaped fifth. Its nofe or 
is bifid, and runs out into two horns; and its fides are both 
terminated by thin fins: its fkin toward the head is varie 
riofity. Dr. Robert Townfon, in his ct in Higa. 
found it to be nothing more than what is known in Scotland 
by the name of i ykes, and attributes its ae : het 
wafhing away o aces through which it runs. 
pofed of a a peta bafaltes. Many loofe blocks spores 
nearer to Ae orphyr 
INCTION, Devincrio, in Antiquity, was ufed to 
fignify a val charm or incantation to gain the affection of a 
perfon belo 
- Iew ap i e by tying knots, and differed little from what 
was cles cbligatio or oo {mus. Virgil, in his eighth 
Eclogue, deferibes it thus 
‘* Neéte tribus nodis ternos, Amarylli, colores : 
Ne&e, Amaryili, modo; & Veneris die, vincula ne&o.” 
DEVISE, Device, or Banos, in Heraldry, a name 
common to all figures, cyphers, foe scoala mot 
DEV 
toes, &c. which by their allufion to the names of perfong. . 
or families, denote their alities, hada or the like. 
Devife, in this fenfe, of a much older pe than 
heraldry itfelf; being sige one eae the firft- rife t 
ries. hus, the eagle was the devife of the Rows em- 
was the devife of the Romau people, and 
Rill ¢ continues t to be what they call the efcutcheon of the city 
Rom 
2] 
bold 
The. fir devifes were mere letters diftributed on the 
borders of houfings, and banners, and 
hus the K was the devife of the 
rench kings of the name of Charles, from Charles V. to 
Charles IX. 
Mies were alfo pe ek rebufes, Se or eu 
both to names and The d of Gui , took 
their devife an A in an ao. to fignity, chac on tour, 
every one in his turn: and the houfe of Benefai, in ei is? 
honore fenefees: fome, that had towers in their arms, turris 
Deus, 
There are alfo rene get as that of the Golden 
ae with Autre n’aura mating, that Philip the . 
Good, who inftituted hat eee ease every other wo- 
man but Ifabella of Portugal, whom he then married. Deviles 
fometimes contain entire proverbs: as that of Czfar Borgia, 
aut ae aut 1 
ord devile is formed from the Latin a and 
was brane to the things juft mentioned, as well as thofe 
hereafter mentioned ; 
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aX 
Father Menetrier ob- 
many different kinds of iplcapaa as 
different manners of dif 
e figures or 
event’ was ipa to the 
ae pues of tilts, tournaments, aa 
onged 
EVISE ig now taken, in a more reftrained fenfe, for an 
emblem ; repre faction of fome natural body, with a 
motto, or fentene, ae in a figurative fenfe, to the ad- 
oe of fome perfon 
Father Bouhanrs gives an accurate rs Yc ‘of the 
= devife, in an extra inferted in the Memoirs de Tre- 
A devife, fays he, is a compofition, or ene of 
ius drawn ska nature and art, called the body ; and of 
few words adapted to ul: fucha 
compound, adds he 
or intention, by comparifon : 
confifts in a eal taken from nature, or art, and 
founded on a metaphor 
This he Wan etes in - following inftance: a young 
and ambition, bore, forhis de-« 
ve 
urche m/’inalzi ;?? ma 
mount high: which 
rifes a great pitch, though it only endures a little while, fo 
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