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A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse. Crabb.

The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]

To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise. [Obs.] They boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting . . . would not be undeviled by all their exorcisms. Fuller.

which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs. The early vaudeville, which is the forerunner of the opera bouffe, was light, graceful, and piquant. Johnson's Cyc.

The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.

e of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvæ of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). S…

Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain. [Written also weevilled.]

Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also weevilly.]

See Weevil.

ilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

eing accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.

ore the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.

A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.