DPage 140
- English Word Devious Definition Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.
- English Word Devious Definition Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.
- English Word Devirginate Definition Deprived of virginity.
- English Word Devirginate Definition To deprive of virginity; to deflour.
- English Word Devirgination Definition A deflouring.
- English Word Devisable Definition Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.
- English Word Devisable Definition Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.
- English Word Devisal Definition A devising.
- English Word Devise Definition To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.
- English Word Devise Definition To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
- English Word Devise Definition To say; to relate; to describe.
- English Word Devise Definition To imagine; to guess.
- English Word Devise Definition To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
- English Word Devise Definition To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
- English Word Devise Definition The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
- English Word Devise Definition A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
- English Word Devise Definition Property devised, or given by will.
- English Word Devise Definition Device. See Device.
- English Word Devised Definition of Devise
- English Word Devisee Definition One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
- English Word Deviser Definition One who devises.
- English Word Devising Definition of Devise
- English Word Devisor Definition One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.
- English Word Devitable Definition Avoidable.
- English Word Devitalize Definition To deprive of life or vitality.
- English Word Devitation Definition An avoiding or escaping; also, a warning.
- English Word Devitrification Definition The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.
- English Word Devitrify Definition To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.
- English Word Devocalize Definition To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.
- English Word Devocation Definition A calling off or away.