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Full of devices; inventive. [R.] A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.

vil a puritan that he is, . . . but a timepleaser. Shak. The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Pope.

To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain. For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore They are which fortunes do by vows devise. Spenser.

To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich. [R.] Diamondizing of your subject. B. Jonson.

An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich.

A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa. [Written also Deinornis.]

r disowning; rejection and denial. An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson.

To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch. The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them. Bacon.

Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty! Ecclus. x. 31. To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Shak. -- Dis*hon"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Dis*hon"or*a*bly, adv.

th open and common adultery." Milton. (c) To break or go back from, as one's word. [Obs.] Richardson.

Capacity of being dissolved; solubility. Richardson.

To deprive of sweetness. [R.] Bp. Richardson.

The act of making rich; enrichment. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.

The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.

d envelop; to pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." Hawthorne. -- To do way, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. "M…

rforms little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility. [Colloq.] S. G. Goodrich.

nhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

in the common-law action of ejectment, the fictitious defendant being usually denominated Richard Roe. Hence, a fictitious name for a party, real or fictitious, to any action or proceeding.