Definitions for the word, devise

(n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.

(n.) Device. See Device.

(n.) Property devised, or given by will.

(n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.

(v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.

(v. t.) To imagine; to guess.

(v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.

(v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.


39 words found in the Scrabble word, devise



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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