Part 1086

<hw>Be*twixt"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>prep.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>betwix</ets>, <ets>bitwix</ets>, rarely <ets>bitwixt</ets>, AS. <ets>betweox</ets>, <ets>betweohs</ets>, <ets>betweoh</ets>, <ets>betw\'c6h</ets>; pref. <ets>be-</ets> by + a form fr. AS. <ets>tw\'be</ets> two. See <er>Between</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>In the space which separates; between.</def>

<blockquote>From <b>betwixt</b> two aged oaks. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>From one to another of; mutually affecting.</def>

<blockquote>There was some speech of marriage <b>Betwixt</b> myself and her. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Betwixt and between</col>, <cd>in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cs>

<h1>Beurr\'82</h1> <Xpage=141>

<hw>Beur*r\'82"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. <ets>beurre</ets> butter.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A beurr\'82 (or buttery) pear, one with the me<?/<?/ soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; <as>as, <ex>Beurr\'82</ex> d'Anjou; <i>Beurr\'82</i> Clairgeau.</as></def>

<h1>Bevel</h1> <Xpage=141>

<hw>Bev"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[C. F. <ets>biveau</ets>, earlier <ets>buveau</ets>, Sp. <ets>baivel</ets>; of unknown origin. Cf. <er>Bevile</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; <as>as, to give a <ex>bevel</ex> to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the <ex>bevel</ex> of a piece of timber.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a <altname>bevel square</altname>.</def>

<i>Gwilt.</i>

<h1>Bevel</h1> <Xpage=141>

<hw>Bev"el</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>I may be straight, though they themselves be <b>bevel</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>A bevel angle</col>, <cd>any angle other than one of 90&deg;.</cd> -- <col>Bevel wheel</col>, <cd>a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis.</cd>

<i>Knight.</i> </cs>

<h1>Bevel</h1> <Xpage=141>

<hw>Bev"el</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Beveled</er> (<?/) or <er>Bevelled</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Beveling</er> or <er>Bevelling</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.</def>

<h1>Bevel</h1> <Xpage=141>

<hw>Bev"el</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To deviate or incline from an angle of 90<?/, as a surface; to slant.</def>

<blockquote>Their houses are very ill built, the walls <b>bevel</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Beveled, Bevelled</h1> <Xpage=141>

<hw><hw>Bev"eled</hw>, <hw>Bev"elled</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; <as>as, the <ex>beveled</ex> edge of a table</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Min.)</fld> Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaces by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid.</def>

<h1>Bevel gear</h1> <Xpage=141>

<hw>Bev"el gear`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.</def>