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To raise the devil is slang for to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble.
Beat the Devil around the Stump
To evade responsibility or a difficult task. "Quit beatin' the devil around the stump and ask that girl to marry you."
To beat all or beat the devil. "It was rainin' to beat the Dutch."
Evil is American slang for impressive, admirable.
Dispirited. "I have the blue devils today.â€
The devil was possibly a slang term for the garboard seam, hence "between the devil and the deep blue sea" being an allusion to keel hauling.
Euphemism for hell or the devil.
In the days of sail, paying the devil was a term for sealing the devil seam. It was a difficult and unpleasant job.
Red devil is London Cockney rhyming slang for a spirit level.
Give the devil his due is slang for be fair to someone.
A euphemism for devil.
Devil screecher is Dorset slang for a swift.
Red Devils is slang for secobarbital.
An expletive, expressing wonder or vexation, sometimes used as a term for mischief.
Candle to the devil, To hold a
 To be evil
The old boy is slang for the Devil.
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n.
Devil; -- spelt also deel.
prep.
An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv.
n.
The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
n.
A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
n.
malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
n.
An evil spirit; a devil or demon.
n.
An evil spirit; a devil.
v. t.
To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
a.
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
v. t.
To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
n.
Alt. of Devil bird
adv.
In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
n.
The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils.
n.
An evil spirit; a demon.
a.
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
v. t.
To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise.
a.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
n.
A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil.
n.
A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement.
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