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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.

Not easy; difficult. [R.] Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle. The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott.

Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. [Obs.] Boyle.

To separate, as things cemented or luted; to take the lute or the clay from. Boyle.

arding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii. 8.

The quality or state of being unsincere or impure; insincerity. [Obs.] Boyle.

A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy. And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes Forever on watch ran off each with a prize. W. Howitt. You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband Goldsmith.

Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus. [Obs.] Boyle.

; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.

a challenge; a wager. [Obs.] We 'll all to church together instantly, And then a vie for boys. J. Fletcher.

A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man. [R.]

trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy. Locke. A drollery and lurking waggery of expression. W. Irving.

schievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome. "A company of waggish boys." L'Estrange.

Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular. [Obs.] Halliwell.

ve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] Boyle.

in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. "A body weighing divers ounces." Boyle.

eless. [U. S.] Bartlett. -- Wharf rat. (Zoöl.) (a) The common brown rat. (b) A neglected boy who lives around the wharfs. [Slang]

prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys! What partial judges are our and hate! Dryden.

; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy. Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school. Dryden.

culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc. Boyle.