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Dev [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Deva

Deva [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.

Devanagari [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The character in which Sanskrit is written.

Devaporation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The change of vapor into water, as in the generation of rain.

Devaporation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The change of vapor into water, as in the formation of rain.

Devaprayaga Encyclopedia Britannica

DEVAPRAYAGA, a town of British India, in the presidency of Bengal and province of Gurhwal, in 30° 9' N. lat and 78° 39' E. long. It is one of the five sacred towns of the Hindus,·—a pre-eminence which it owes to its position at the confluence of the Alakananda and the Bhagirathi, whose united waters constitute the Ganges proper. It stands at an elevation of 2266 feet above the sea.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 7, p. 135
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Devast [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To lay waste; to plunder. [Not in use.]

Devast [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To devastate.

Devastate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To lay waste; to waste; to ravage; to desolate; to destroy improvements.

Devastate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

Devastated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Laid waste; ravaged.

Devastated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Devastating [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Laying waste; desolating.

Devastating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Devastation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Waste; ravage; desolation; destruction of works of art and natural productions which are necessary or useful to man; havock; as by armies, fire, flood, etc.

2. IN law, waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor, or administrator.

Devastation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

2. Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.

Devastator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, devastates.

Devastavit [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.

Devata [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A deity; a divine being; a good spirit; an idol.

Deve [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Deaf.

Develin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The European swift.

Develop [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed or withheld from notice.

2. The General began to develop the plan of his operations.

3. These serve to develop its tenets.

4. To unravel; to unfold what is intricate; as, to develop a plot.

Develop [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.

2. To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.

Develop [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.

2. To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

3. To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.

4. To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

5. To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.

Developable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being developed.

Developed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Unfolded; laid open; unraveled.

Developed [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Unfolding; disclosing; unraveling.

Developed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Developer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, develops.

2. A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible.

Developing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genesis 11:6

And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Genesis 31:15

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

Genesis 37:20

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”

Genesis 37:33

And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

Genesis 41:4

And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

And the cows that were sickly and thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up,

Genesis 41:7

And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.

Genesis 41:20

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.

Genesis 41:21

And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.

Genesis 41:24

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”

Genesis 41:30

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

Genesis 49:27

Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

Exodus 10:5

And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.

Exodus 10:12

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”

Exodus 15:13

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.

Exodus 20:6

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Exodus 24:17

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.

Exodus 31:4

To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

Exodus 34:6

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

Exodus 34:7

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

Exodus 35:32

And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,