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Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile. [Obs.] "Viled speeches." Hayward.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

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

To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor. Beau. & Fl.

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

The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. [Colloq.]

To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper. A deviled leg of turkey. W. Irving. deviled egg a hard-boiled egg, sliced into halves and with the yolk removed and replaced with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and/or spices such as paprika.…

language; to reproach. "And did not she herself revile me there" Shak. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again. 1 Pet. ii. 23.

e; to train. It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. Dryden. The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.

exorcise. [Obs.] They boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting . . . would not be undeviled by all their exorcisms. Fuller.

Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also weevilly.]