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n (among the North American Indians), a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of magic. -- Medicine seal, a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medic…

Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.

The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.

sed chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him. Luke iv. 35. There is nothing... in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning. Dryden.

An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous. Rogers.

an agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport. Chaucer. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs. Ps. lii. 2. The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from many mischiefs. Fuller.

Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." Shak. This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. South.

An evil deed; a wicked action. Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. Milton.

Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault. Shak.

Dread of evil. [Obs.]

To feign with an evil design. [Obs.] Spenser.

Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison.

Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.

Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. Chaucer. Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. Shak.

To speak evil of; to slander. [Obs.]

Wrong or evil suggestion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune. [Obs.]

k a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley. There is also a mixture of good and evil wisely distributed by God, to serve the ends of his providence. Atterbury.