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  • 1Old Devil Moon — is a popular song composed by Burton Lane, with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg for the 1947 musical Finian s Rainbow. Notable recordings Rosemary Clooney Out Of This World (2000), At Long Last (with the Count Basie Orchestra) (1998) Billy Eckstine and… …

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  • 2hell-hound, you old —    In its occasional use as a vocative, ‘hell hound’ means something like ‘fiendish person’. When two old friends meet in Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, ‘the two men shook hands a dozen times and, in the Western fashion, bumbled, “Well, well,… …

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  • 3old — W1S1 [əuld US ould] adj comparative older superlative oldest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(not new)¦ 2¦(not young)¦ 3¦(age)¦ 4¦(that you used to have)¦ 5¦(familiar)¦ 6¦(very well known)¦ 7 the old days 8 …

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  • 4young saint, old devil — c 1400 Middle English Sermons from MS Royal 18 B xxiii (EETS) 159 Itt is a comond prouerbe bothe of clerkes and of laye men, ‘younge seynt, old dewell’. 1552 H. LATIMER Seventh Sermon, Lord’s Prayer in Sermons (1844 5) 431 The old proverb, ‘Young …

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  • 5devil, you —    ‘Devil’ is seldom used vocatively in modern times to refer to a person who is considered to be truly fiendish, inhumanly cruel, or wicked. Such usage is found in Shakespeare, as when Albany says to Goneril in King Lear (4:ii), ‘See thyself,… …

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  • 6devil — dev|il [ˈdevəl] n [: Old English; Origin: deofol, from Greek diabolos] 1.) the devil also the Devil the most powerful evil ↑spirit in some religions, especially in Christianity = ↑Satan 2.) an evil ↑ …

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  • 7Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening — North American box ar …

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  • 8devil — [[t]de̱v(ə)l[/t]] devils 1) N PROPER: the N In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Devil is the most powerful evil spirit. Syn: Satan 2) N COUNT A devil is an evil spirit. ...the idea of angels with wings and devils with horns and hoofs. Syn:… …

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  • 9devil */*/ — UK [ˈdev(ə)l] / US noun Word forms devil : singular devil plural devils 1) a) the Devil the most powerful evil spirit in many religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam b) [countable] an evil spirit They believed she had been possessed by …

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  • 10devil — dev|il [ devl ] noun ** 1. ) the Devil the most powerful evil spirit in many religions such as Christianity and Islam: SATAN a ) count an evil spirit: DEMON: They believed she had been possessed by devils. 2. ) count INFORMAL someone who does not …

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