devil's-dust 
Docs it beseem (bee t.. weave eloth of der-ifi dust in- = Syn. Circuitous r,miMl:ib,,ut. tortuous, indirect, erratic, 
stead of true wonl'- Carlylf, Misc., IV. 2:t. roving, rambling, straying. See irregular. 
devil'8-ear (dov'la-er), . So,- the extract, deviously (<lf"vi-u.s-li), nrfr. t" - T -.n. 
See the extract. 
It was a wake-robin, commonly kuown as dragon-root, 
devil's ear, or Incllmi turnip. .S'. Judil, Margaret, i. 5. 
devirs- 
devils 
*;(*/ i " W(K)<1 tl'fl' / "" '''' ' 
wug8&ttrv& aseasxaiz 
A nuthatch scaling deviously the tnmk of some hard- 
wood tree. Lowell, <tildy Windows, p. 51. 
Departure from 
Bailey, 1727. 
from the mischief they cause. 
devilship (dev'1-Rhip) . [< ATI + -ship] 
The person or character of a devil; the state 
of being a devil His devilship, a ludicrous title of 
address, on type of his lordship, to the devil. 
hut I shall tiii'l out counter charms, 
devirginatet (de-v6r'ji-nat), a^ [< LL. devir- 
ginatus 
Cowley, Description of Honour, ginity. 
devil's-horse (dev'lz-h6rs), n. One of the popu- 
Thy airy devilship to remove 
From this circle here of love. 
1581 devitrification 
St. To plan or scheme for ; purpose to obtain. 
Fooles therefore 
They nre which fortunes doe by vowes devize. 
Sptnur, F. Q., VI. ix. sn. 
6. To give, assign, make over, or transmit 
(real property) by will. 
One half to thee I give and I derise. 
Crabbe, Works, V. 21ft. 
Was It ever intended that the king could empower his 
subjects to devise their freeholds or to levy flues of their 
entailed land*! Hallam. 
= Syn. 4. To concoct, concert. 
II. intraiis. To consider ; lay a plan or plans ; 
form a scheme or schemes ; contrive. 
Let us deeize of ease and everlasting rest 
Spenser, F. Q., I. xli. 17. 
Then shall we further devise together upon all things, 
-g-inatM, ppT's see the Verb.] Deprived of vir- what order sha,n,e bes^uke^^ ^^ Owner L ^ 
restored in the blood of the L 
timony, this assurance, that God is with him. 
Donnf, Sermons, ii. 
lar names applied to orthopterous insects of the 
family Mantilla.-; a rear-horse. 
devil's-milk (dev'lz-milk), n. 1. The sun- 
spurge, Euphorbia helioscoyia : so called from 
its acrid poisonous milk. 2. The white milky 
juice of various other common plants. 
d 
Fair Hero, left deviryinatt, 
Weighs, and with fury wails her state. 
Chapman and Marlowe, Hero and Leander, Hi., Arg. 
Even blushing brings them to their dev 
Taste is nothing in the world except the faculty which 
devises according to the laws of beauty, which executes 
according to the laws of beauty. 
Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 50. 
devise (de-viz'), w. [A f ormer spelling of device; 
in legal senses due to the verb devise : see de- 
vice, n., devise, v.] If (de-vis'). An obsolete 
juice of various other common plants. devisable (de-vi'za-bl), a. [< devise + -able.] * eathme bTwill 
Levil's-Shoestrings (dev'lz-sho'strmgz), n. The i CapaWe of being invented or contrived. I" 6 *" 
iroat's-riip Tmlirotiit Uraiiiiana SO called from The alienation is made by devise in a last will only, and 
8SK3&7 nota 9 ?" ^^^VSt^^^SSytfJSSiAS^ the third part of these profits Is there demandab.e. Locke. 
its tough slender roots. 
devil-tree (dev'1-tre), . The Alstonia scolaris, 
an apocynaceous tree of tropical Asia, Africa, 
blc by curious or captious wits, against his dispensations. 
Barrow, Works, II. II. 
and Australia, a large evergreen with soft white w jjj 
2. Capable of being bequeathed or assigned by 
wood. Both wood and bark (called dita bark) are bitter, 
and are used as a tonic and febrifuge. The milky Juice 
yields a substance resembling gutta-percha. 
It seems sufficiently clear that, before the conquest, 
lands were devisable by will. Klackstone, Com. 
deviltry "(dev'l-triXn.";pf. deviltries (-triz). [Ir- devisal (de-yl'zal),H. [< devise + -al] 1. The 
reg. for devilry, q. v.] Diabolical action ; ma- act of devising ; a contriving or forming. 
licious mischief ; devilry. 
The rustics beholding crossed themselves and suspected 
deciltries. C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, xcv. 
Would hear from deviltries as much as a good sermon. 
Each word may lie not unfitly compared to an inven- 
tion ; it has its own place, mode, and circumstances of 
devisal. Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., p. 309. 
2. The act of bequeathing; assignment by will 
(b) A will or testament, (c) A gift of real prop- 
erty by will : sometimes loosely used of per- 
sonal property. 
A gift by will of freehold laud, or of such rights arising 
out of or connected with land as are by English law classed 
with it as real property, is called a devise. 
F. Pollock, Land Laws, p. 124. 
(d) The clause in a will by which such gift is 
made. Executory devise, a future and contingent in- 
terest in real property in contravention of the strict rules 
of the old common law ; a future interest, created by will, 
which is not preceded by an estate of freehold created by 
the will of the same testator, or which, being so preceded, 
cannot be split 
A jS3STBSS-a5S. deviscerate (de-vis'e-rat); *. t.-, pret. and pp. %W*ZS?S3^^ZS5*3to^. 
devil-WOOd (dev'1-wud), w. The Osmanthus dcviscerated, ppr. deviscerating. [< L. de- priv. ra tion of. such prior estate of freehold. Jarman; Bnm 
Americanos, a small tree of the southern United + viscera, the .internal organs : see viscera. Cf. and Hartley _ 
States allied to the European olive The wood eviscerate.] To eviscerate or disembowel. devisee (dev-i-ze ), n. [< deu.se + -eei.] 
is very heavVand sfrong P and so t ough that H devisceration (de-vis-e-ra 'shon), n. [< de- person to whom a devise is made; one to whom 
' * viscerate: see -ation.] The operation of re- real estate is bequeathed. 
devisefult, devisefullyt. Obsolete forms of 
deviceful, devirefully. 
deviser (de-vl'zer), H. One who contrives or 
_ invents ; a' contriver ; an inventor. 
__ju"mption that the Deity does not trouble himself about distinguish," regulate, bequeath, talk, F. devi- Lydgat a translatour onely and no rfeuurr of thatwhich 
the world, or that the powers of evil are as mighty as the er _ P r Sn fobs ) Pe devisor = It divisare, he wrate. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 50. 
Sua?ed g00d ' a " d mU8t '" con8equence * bribed a " d divide, share, describe; think, < ML. as if >di- 
levil-WOrshiper (dev'l-wer'shi-per), n. One visare. < dirisa, a division of goods, portion of 
who worships a devil, a malignant deity, or au land, bound, decision, mark, device: see device.] 
evil spirit; specifically, a member of the tribe I. trans. If. To divide; distinguish. 
Now thanne the Firmament Is ' 
meres, in 12 Signes ; and every Sign 
grees, that is 360 Degrees, that tl 
aboven. Mandeville, Travels, p. 185. 
2f. To say ; tell ; relate ; describe. 
What sholde I more devise t 
devisor (de-vi'zor), *. One who gives by will ; 
properly called Yezidis, living in Mesopotamia, 
Assyria, Kurdistan, and other parts of Turkey in 
Asia, and noted for adding the worship of Satan 
to a professed belief in the Old Testament, and 
respect for the New Testament and the Koran. 
The Izedis or Yezidis, the so-called Dfml-tmrehijipere, 
still remain a numerous though oppressed people in Meso- 
potamia and adjacent countries. 
S. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 299. 
devint, devinet, " Old forms of dirine. 
b Is devysed, be Astrono- shun, avoid. Cf. rvitable.] Avoidable. Bailey. 
Signe is demised in so De- devitalization (de-vi'tal-i-za'shon), w. [< de- 
SLSL.S'SSSS* **$f vitalize + -ation,] The'act of depriving of vi- 
tality: as, the dcritalization of tissue, 
devitalize (de-vi'tal-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
devitalized, ppr. devitalizing. [< de- priv. + 
Chauctr Monk's Tale 1 ^^.^ ' To 'deprive o f vitality; tafie away 
I schalle devise 3011 sum partle of thinges that there ,.,_ iX< *-;; ns *:. 
principles of the resolution and composition of 
rotations. "t' 
Sire has descrilwd an apparatus, which he calls a demo- 
scope, for ascertaining directly the relation which exists 
between the angular velocity of the earth and that of a 
horizon around the vertical of any place whatc\i ' 
Xuiilhtonian Report, 1881, p. 334. 
ben, whan time schalle ben, aftre it may best come to my 
mynde. Mandeville, Travels, p. 4. 
After they had thus saluted and embraced each other, 
' ' ' ardthe 
they 
,e (1588). 
life or life-sustaining qualities from. 
To air thus changed or deteriorated I gave the name of 
devitalized air. B. H". Richardson, Prevent Med., p. 528. 
The most finished and altogether favorable example of 
this devitalized scholarship with many graceful additions 
was Edward Everett The Xation, Dec. 23, 1869, p. 559. 
" devitationt(dev-i-ta'shon),. [< L. devita- 
; conjecture ; guess, or guess at. tto ( n .) ; < devitare, pp. deviiatus, avoid : see deri- 
_i. . . . .k.. ...... table.] A warning off; warning: the opposite 
Forto reken al the arai in Rome that time, 
Alle the men vpon mold ne mist hit device, 
So wel In alle wise was hit arayed. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1603. 
If it be I, of pardon I you pray ; 
But if ought else that I mote not devyse, 
I will, if please you it discure, assay 
To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may. 
If there be any here that . . . will venture himself a 
guest at the devils banquet, maugre all devitation, let 
him stay and hear the reckoning. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, 1. 277. 
He . 
Rome. 
. devise 
devitrification (de-vit'ri-fl-ka'shon), n. [< F. 
Spenter, F. Q., II. ix. 42. dfritnfication; as devitrify + -ation. See-fica- 
iseth first that this Brutus was a Consul of tion i Lo ss, either partial or entire, of the 
Holland, tr. of Camden s Britain, p. 8 JJJJ or ^^ co ^ itioD< or t he process by 
4. To think or study out: elaborate in the which this result is attained. The most conspicn- 
mind ; invent ; contrive ; plan : as, to derise a O us illustration of devitrification is the production of 
new machine, or a new method of doing any- "Reaumur porcelain" from glass by the long-continued 
thing; to devise a plan of defense; to devise action of ^J^f^^J^ t ^^^^ 
devious (de'vi-us), a. [< L. devius, lying off 
the high road, out of the way, < de, off, away, 
+ via, way. Cf. deviate.] 1. Out of the direct 
or common way or track; circuitous; rambling: 
as, a derious course. 
The dteiotu paths where wanton fancy leads. .Rowr. 
To bless the wildly devious morning walk. Thomson. 
And pursuing 
Each one its devious path, but drawing nearer anil nearer, 
Rush together at last. Longfellow, Miles standish, viii. 
2. Moving on or pursuing a winding or con- 
fused course. [Rare.] 
When a shoal 
Of devious minnows wheel from where a pike 
Lurks balanced 'ncath the lily-pads. 
Liiirfll, Vnderthe Willow<. 
3. Erring ; going astray from rectitude or the 
divine precepts. 
Fell here and there through the branches a tremulous 
trlpaill of the moonliiiht Uiissive iiierei* uim tvmuicu uy tcnij*t.iiiiii, nuv itti/tn;/ \n 1*0 ui*gu . ...^vi.^ ^.....^- 
Like the sweet thoughts of love on a darkened and devioui evil, and speaking hard things against God. duction of a purely lit 
spirit. Longfellow, Evangeline, II. 3. J. H. Xevmtni, Parochial Sermons, I. 90. developed in the process ion, wl 
schemes of plunder. 
The! ben alle clothed in Clothes of Gold or of Tartaries 
or of Camokas, so richely and so perfytly. that no man in 
the World can amenden it, ue better devisen it 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 233. 
. 
tion is much employed by lithologists in describing the 
changes which have taken place in rocks consisting ori- 
ginally, either wholly or in large part, of glass. (See lava 
and obsidian.) It may be the result of cooling, dnrins 
which crystalline products have developed themselves in 
the glass in greater or less perfection ; or it may have 
To devise curious works, to work in goid, and In silver, ^l&SSftttt&jgtfZg'iX 
and in brass. Ex. xxxv. 32. 
Devise but how you'll use him when he comes, 
Anil let us two derise to tiring him thither. 
>'/'.(., M. W. of W., Iv. 4. 
Satan from without, and our hearts from within, not 
passive merely and kindled by temptation, but devising 
, 
with or without the aid of heat after the rocks had be- 
come solidified. Pressure is also regarded by many as 
being an agent of high importance. The changes thus 
indicated may be begun in a rock during its consolidation. 
and afterward continued under the combined influence of 
heat water and pn-sMire. even to tlie entire obliteration 
f its original vitreous character, the result lieing the pro- 
forms 
