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See Cheve, v. i. [Obs.]

s of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley.

Somewhat clever. [R.]

In a clever manner. Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart.

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

See under Rocket.

A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.

Deaf. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]

es or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power. These serve to develop its tenets. Milner. The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy. The Century.

Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface (Math.), a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.

One who, or that which, develops.

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. A new developmen…

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.

To deprive of beauty or grace. [Obs.]

See Divergence. [Obs.]

To divest; to undress. Shak.

Devexity. [Obs.] May (Lucan).

A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)

Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual. Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. J. S. Mill.