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n. [ C. F. biveau, earlier buveau, Sp. baivel; of unknown origin. Cf. Bevile. ] 1. 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, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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 bevel square. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To deviate or incline from an angle of 90°, as a surface; to slant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beveled (&unr_;) or Bevelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Beveling or Bevelling. ] To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90°. --
Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mech.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bever a drink, drinking time, OF. beivre, boivre, to drink, fr. L. bibere. ] A light repast between meals; a lunch. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]