A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
A barren, unproductive and unused area.
A Tasmanian devil.
A printer's assistant. Also (India) "a poltergeist that haunts printing works".
A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
A dust devil.
A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
Hell.
A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
To work as a βdevilβ; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
To annoy or bother.
To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
The chief devil; Satan.
Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
Optimal; being the best possibility.
Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it.
A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) π of a given Lie algebra π such that the Lie bracket [π,π] is a subset of π.