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Deviltry. Bp. Warburton.

Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry. Stark lies and devilry. Sir T. More.

The character or person of a devil or the devil. Cowley.

Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry. C. Reade.

A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.

Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.

Deprived of virginity. [R.]

A deflouring. [R.] Feltham.

Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.

A devising. Whitney.

o formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument. To devise curious works. Ex. CCTV. 32. Devising schemes to realize his ambitious views. Bancroft.

One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

One who devises.

One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.

Avoidable. [Obs.]

To deprive of life or vitality. -- De*vi`tal*i*za"tion, n.

An avoiding or escaping; also, a warning. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.

To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.

, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.