Vocabulary : Devilwood to Deviser

Devilwood : A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.
Devious : Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. ;; Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.
Devirginate : Deprived of virginity. ;; To deprive of virginity; to deflour.
Devirgination : A deflouring.
Devisable : Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. ;; Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.

Devisal : A devising.
Devise : 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. ;; To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain. ;; To say; to relate; to describe. ;; To imagine; to guess. ;; To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. ;; To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. ;; The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate. ;; A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. ;; Property devised, or given by will. ;; Device. See Device.
Devised : of Devise
Devisee : One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
Deviser : One who devises.

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