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The old boy is slang for the Devil.
Not even close. "She couldn't hold a candle to that beauty across the room."
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."
Tardle is Dorset slang for tangle, entanglement.
Dusk. The dance will start at early candle-light.
In the days of sail, paying the devil was a term for sealing the devil seam. It was a difficult and unpleasant job.
Faddle is Dorset slang for a bundle, a load.
To raise the devil is slang for to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble.
Measure up, compare to.
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.
Canoodle is slang for to kiss and cuddle; pet; fondle.
Candle to the devil, To hold a
 To be evil
Ardle is Dorset slang for a muddle, a tangle.
Roman candle is British slang for a parachute jump in which the parachute fails to open. RomanCandle is British slang for a Roman Catholic.Roman Candle is London Cockney rhyming slang for sandal.
To touch or handle the buttocks legs or crotch; to fondle another person's clothed genitals.
Handle is slang for a person's name or title. Handle is slang for sexual intercourse. Handle is slang for to masturbate.Handle is American slang for the penis. Handle is American slang for to manhandle.Handle is Australian and New Zealand slang for a glass of beer. Handle was old slang for the nose.
Give the devil his due is slang for be fair to someone.
Candle (shortened from candle sconce) is London Cockney rhyming slang for a pimp.
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prep.
In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.
v. t.
To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service.
prep.
Accompaniment; as, she sang to his guitar; they danced to the music of a piano.
prep.
Accord; adaptation; as, an occupation to his taste; she has a husband to her mind.
v. t.
To fondle; to dandle.
v. t.
To make into caudle.
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.
prep.
Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him.
prep.
Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.
n.
The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
prep.
Addition; union; accumulation.
prep.
The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to from.
prep.
As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (Matt. xi. 8).
v. t.
To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
prep.
Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as; as, they met us to the number of three hundred.
v. t.
Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
v. t.
To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office.
prep.
Apposition; connection; antithesis; opposition; as, they engaged hand to hand.
prep.
In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous liquor.
prep.
Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to the prejudice of the state.
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