Word Meanings - DICKENS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.

Related words: (words related to DICKENS)

• DEVILET
  A little devil. Barham.
• 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
• DEVILWOOD
  A kind of tree , allied to the European olive.
• DEVILING
  A young devil. Beau. & Fl.
• 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.
• DICKENS
  The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
• DEVIL-DIVER; DEVIL BIRD
  A small water bird. See Dabchick.
• 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.
• DEVILSHIP
  The character or person of a devil or the devil. Cowley.
• DEVIL
  A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. Sir W. Scott. (more info) 1. The Evil One;
• DEVILMENT
  Deviltry. Bp. Warburton.
• 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
• UNDEVIL
  To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise. They boy having gotten a habit of counterfeiting . . . would not be undeviled by all their exorcisms. Fuller.
• DEMIDEVIL
  A half devil. Shak.