n. A false accuser; a traducer or slanderer.n. [This use of the original term διάβολος occurs several times in the New Testament (1 Tim. iii. 11; 2 Tim. iii. 3; Tit. ii. 3), but this is the only instance in which, when so used, it is rendered devil in the English versions.]n. In Christian theology, a powerful spirit of evil, otherwise called Satan (the adversary or opposer): with the definite article, and always in the singular.n. [Used in the English versions of the New Testament to translate the Greek δαιμόνιον and δαίμων, a spirit or demon: see demon.] A subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict man both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption; one of the malignant spirits employed by Satan as his agents in his work of evil; a demon.n. A false god; an idol.n. A person resembling a devil or demon in character; a malignantly wicked or cruel person; a fierce or fiendish person: often used with merely expletive or exaggerative force: as, he's the very devil for reckless dash.n. A fellow; a rogue: used generally with an epithet (little, poor, etc.), and expressing slight contempt or pity: as, a shrewd little devil; a poor devil (an unfortunate fellow).n. As an expletive: The deuce: now always with the article the, but formerly sometimes with the article a, or used absolutely, preceding a sentence or phrase, and serving, like deuce and other words of related import, as an ejaculation expressing sudden emotion, as surprise, wonder, vexation, or disgust.n. Before the indefinite article with a noun, an emphatic negative: as, devil a bit (not a bit). Compare fiend, Scotch fient, in similar use.n. An errand-boy in a printing-office. See printer's devil, below.n. A name of several instruments or mechanical contrivances.n. Among jewelers, a bunch of matted wire on which the parts ot lockets are placed for soldering.n. Nautical, the seam of a ship which margins the waterways: so called from its awkwardness of access in calking. Hence the phrase the devil to pay, etc. See below.n. The Venus's-comb, Scandix Pecten, from the long tapering beaks of the fruit.n. over which, when first finished, the devil is supposed to have looked with a fierce and terrific countenance, as incensed and alarmed at this costly instance of devotion. Ray thinks it more probable that it took its rise from a small image of the devil placed on the top of Lincoln College, Oxford, over which he looks, seemingly with much fury.” (Grose, Local Proverbs.)To make devilish, or like a devil.In cookery, to season highly with mustard, pepper, etc., and broil.To bother; torment.To cut up, as cloth or rags, by means of a machine called a devil.n. n. A junior counsel who assists his superior, usually without financial reward.n. In mathematics, a curve whose equation is y — x + ay + bx = o.n. A ‘literary’ or professional ‘hack’; one who does professional work for another who gets all the credit.n. Gunpowder moistened with water or alcohol so as to destroy the granulation and form a paste: used as a sort of firework by boys, and as a priming or fuse.n. A moving whirlwind carrying up columns of sand, such as are common in India, Persia, and countries having dry seasons: sometimes called dancing-devil or desert devil, and known in upper India by the local name bagoola (Hind. bagū la).n. A highly seasoned dish of crabs, chicken, eggs, or the like, cooked together.n. The wheel-bug. Also called the devil's riding-horse.n. The American or Virginia virgin's-bower, Clematis Virginiana, so named from its gossamer-like fruit.To do professional work (literary or legal) for another who receives all the credit, and sometimes also the remuneration or fee; act as a literary or legal devil.
