Word Meanings - DEVILING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A young devil. Beau. & Fl.

Related words: (words related to DEVILING)

• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• DEVILET
  A little devil. Barham.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• DEVILESS
  A she-devil. Sterne.
• DEVILISM
  The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils. Bp. Hall.
• DEVILISH
  1. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme. "Devilish wickedness." Sir P. Sidney. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. James iii. 15. 2. Extreme; excessive.
• DEVILFISH
  A huge ray of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. The gray whale
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• DEVILWOOD
  A kind of tree , allied to the European olive.
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• DEVILING
  A young devil. Beau. & Fl.
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
• DEVIL'S DARNING-NEEDLE
  A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.
• DEVILRY
  1. Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry. Stark lies and devilry. Sir T. More. 2. The whole body of evil spirits. Tylor.
• DEVIL-DIVER; DEVIL BIRD
  A small water bird. See Dabchick.
• YOUNGLING
  A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. "More dear . . . than younglings to their dam." Spenser. He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings. Ridley.
• DEVILIZE
  To make a devil of. He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him. Bp. Hall.
• DEVILKIN
  A little devil; a devilet.
• DEVILTRY
  Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry. C. Reade.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• VAUDEVILLE
  where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such 1. A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• WATER DEVIL
  The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
• BEDEVIL
  1. To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne. 2. To spoil; to corrupt. Wright.
• SEA DEVIL
  Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox. Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid . See