bevel 
trans. To cut to a bevel-angle: as, to li-<l a 
piece of wood. 
II. intrans. To incline toward a point or 
from a direct line; slant or incline olT to ;i 
bevel-angle. 
bevel-angle (bev'el-ang'gl), . Any angle ex- 
cept a right angle, whether it be acute or ob- 
tuse. Also called bevel. 
beveled, bevelled (bev'ekl), p. a. 1. Having 
a bevel; formed with a bevel-angle. 2. In 
iiiiiirnil., replaced by two phi nes inclining equal- 
ly upon the adjacent planes, as an edge ; hav- 
ing its edges replaced as above, as a cube or 
other solid. 3. In her., broken by an acute 
angle : thus, in the cut under bevel, the blazon 
would be a chief vert, beveled. Beveled bushing, 
;i hushing in which the sides are inclined to the ends. 
Beveled double, in her., beveled on either side.- Bev- 
eled furniture, in / //i(///v. I/O The' tapering side-sticks 
mid foot-slirks used in imposing forms or locking' ii|i '-'al- 
leys. (/>) Beveled pieecs of wood less than type-hinii. 
Beveled gearing. See yeariiuj. Beveled washer, a 
iruhor having its two fares not parallel to each other, 
used to give a proper bearing to a head or nut when the 
rnd or bolt is not perpendicular to the surface against 
which the washer presses. 
bevel-gear (bey'el-ger), n. In mack., a species 
of wheelwork in which the axis or shaft of the 
leader or driver 
forms an angle 
with the axis or 
shaft of the fol- 
lower or the wheel 
driven. 
bevel-hub (bev'el- 
hub), . A hub 
or short connect- 
ing-pipe having a 
bend. 
beveling, bevel- 
ling (bev'el-ing), 
n. Same as bev- 
el,!. 
It is evident from 
5.39 
bevel-ways (bevVl-waz), ndr. Same as 
i/ifif. 
bevel-wheel (bevYI-liwel), n. In much., a 
cog-wheel of which the working-face is oblique 
to the axis, such a win-el is commonly used in con- 
nection with another revolving with a shaft at right 
angles to that of tile liixl. These hct-ls are often railed 
conical wheels, as their general form is that of frusta of 
eones. See Aejv/-./. "/'. 
bevel-wise (bev'el-wiz), atlt. In her., in the 
form or direction of a bevel : said of a ribbon 
or pennon charged thus upon the field. Also 
bever 't, . An obsolete form of beaver*. 
bever-t, . An obsolete form of In urn--. 
bever't (be'ver). . [Now chiefly E. dial.; also 
written Imn-fi; < ME. bever, later also bi-mir. 
bocver, < OF. bcrn; Imii-re, mod. F. boire = It. 
Bevel-fear. 
the preceding, that by applying the bevel in the work- 
man's usual manner, viz., with the stock against the left- 
hand side of the board and directed towards his body, all 
the beveling* will be under, that is, less than a right angle. 
. . . We thus flnd that when the first futtock frames are 
on the amidship side of the joint, thefr bevelings are always 
standing, or greater than a right angle. 
Thearle, Naval Architecture, p. 53. 
beveling-board (bev'el-ing-bord), . 1. A 
board cut to any required bevel. It is used in 
adjusting frames or the parts of an angular 
construction, as in a ship. 2. A flat board 
upon which the beyelings of the various por- 
tions of a construction, as the framework of a 
ship, are marked. 
beveling-frame (bev'el-ing-fram), n. Awooden 
frame in which a beveling-board is placed to 
be marked. It consists of a wide board, on one edge of 
which is placed a fixed, and on the opposite a movable, 
batten. Across both battens parallel lines are marked. 
beveling-machine (bev'el-ing-ma-shen*), . A 
machine for beveling or angling the outer edges 
of a book-cover, or of an electrotyped plate for 
printing. 
bevel-jack (bev'el-jak), n. A device used in 
transmitting motion from a motor to a machine. 
It consists of a pair of bevel-gears, one of which is con- 
nected with a tumbling-shaft turned by the motor, while 
the other has a pulley which by a belt drives the machine. 
bevel-joint (bev'el-joint), . A miter or slop- 
ing joint having its faces dressed to an angle, 
generally of 45. 
bevelled, bevelling. See beveled, beveling. 
bevelment (bev'el-meut), . 
[< berel + -ment.] In mineral., 
the replacement of an edge by 
two similar planes, equally 
inclined to the including faces 
or adjacent planes. 
bevel-plater (bev'el-pla'ter), 
n. A machine for rolling the 
-u i j i i * e . . Bevelmentof theedges 
bevel-edged plates Of Shin- of acubebyplanesoja 
gling and Veneering SaWS. tetrahexaherfron. 
bevel-protractor (bev'el-pro-trak"tor), n. A 
drafting instrument with a pivoted arm sliding 
upon a graduated sector, 
used in laying off angles. 
bevel-rest" (bev'el-rest), . 
A clamp for holding wood 
to a saw in making a bevel- 
ed cut. 
bevel-square (bev'el-skwar), n. A try-square 
the blade of which can be adjusted to any 
angle with the stock, and held at such an angle 
by a set-screw. It is an artisan's instrument for try- 
ing his work to see if it has been made with the proper 
angle. Also called angle-bevel. 
Bevel-protractor. 
e, bere (ML. biber), a drink, prop, inf., 
drink, < L. Inhere, drink : see Wo 1 , bililn r. 
Hence ln-n nnjt:'} 1. A collation or slight re- 
past between meals. 
Are. What, at your bever, gallant* ? 
Mm: Will 't please your ladyship to drink ? 
B. Jotutvn, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 
Some twenty mark a year ! will that maintain 
Searlet and gold lace, play at th' ordinary, 
And Invert at the tavern? 
MMifM,,,,, Anything for a Quiet Life, 1. 1. 
2. Formerly, at some colleges and schools, a 
slight meal which the students received at the 
buttery-hatch and took to their rooms. 
No scholar shall be absent above an hour at morning 
bever and half an hour at evening bever. 
Quincy, Hist. Harv. Univ., I. 51". 
When I was at Eton now more than thirty years ago 
the boys on the foundation were supplied in the dining- 
liall with an intermediate meal (if meal it could be called), 
which went under the name of beaver. According to my 
recollection it consisted of beer only, and the hour was 
4P.M. JV. and(j.,nhtxr., II. 454. 
bever 3 t (be'ver), v. i. [< bever 3 , .] To take a 
bever or slight repast between meals. 
Your gallants never sup, breakfast, nor becer without 
me. A. Bremr (?), Lingua, ii. 1. 
beverage (bev'e-raj), . [Early mod. E. also 
beveridge, beuvrage, etc., < ME. beverage, bev- 
erege, beverache, beurage, etc. (cf. ML. bevera- 
gium), < OF. bevrage, beuvrage, breurraige, mod. 
F. breuvage (= Pr. beurage = Sp. bebrage = 
Pg. beberagem = It. beveraggio ; ML. as if *W- 
beraticum), < bevrc, boil-re = It. bevere, < L. bi- 
bere, drink: see bever 3 , n., and -agre.] 1. Drink 
of any kind ; liquor for drinking : as, water is 
the common beverage; intoxicating beverages. 
A pleasant beverac/e he prepared before 
Of wine and honey mixed. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., il. 
2. A name given specifically to various kinds 
of refreshing drinks, (a) In Devonshire, England, 
water-cider ; a drink made by passing water through the 
crushed apples from which cider has been made. (&) A 
liquor made by passing water through the pressed grapes 
after the wine has been expressed. 
Touching price and quality of a liquor or drink called 
in England "bevaradge " and in France " pimpeene." 
Record Soc. Lancashire and Cheshire, xi. 117. 
(c) In the West Indies, a drink made of sugar-cane juice 
and water. 
3. In Great Britain, drink-money, or a treat 
provided with drink-money, as on wearing a 
new suit of clothes, or on receiving a suit from 
the tailor ; a treat 011 first coming into prison ; 
a garnish. [Obsolete or dialectal.] 
bevewt, n. See bevue. 
bevil, bevile, w. In her., same as bevel, 5. 
bevort, See beaver^. 
bevue (be-vu'), n. [Formerly also bevew, < F. 
bevue, OF. besrue, < be-, bes- (< L. bis-, double), 
+ vue, view : see view.] An error of inadver- 
tence ; a slip. [Bare.] 
bevy(bev'i), n.; pi. bevies (-iz). [Early mod. E. 
also heavy, beavie, < ME. bevy, beveu, beve, < OF. 
beveye (" beuejje [printed deueye'] des heronez," 
in a poem cited by Leo, Rect. Sing. Perso- 
narum, p. 40); cf. It. "beva, a beavie," Florio: 
applied esp. to a flock of birds and thence to a 
company of ladies; orig., perhaps, a drinking 
company, or a number of animals at a water- 
ing-place, being thus a particular use of OF. 
bevee, buvee, drink, drinking (cf. It. beva, a 
drink), < bevre = It. bevere, drink: see bever 3 , 
n., and beverage.] 1. A flock of birds, espe- 
cially of larks or quails. 2. A small company 
or troop, as of roebucks, heifers, etc. 3. A 
group or small company of persons, especially 
of girls or women, but also used of the male 
sex: as, "a bevy of powdered coxcombs," Gold- 
smith; "a bevy of renegades," Macaulay, Hist. 
Eng. 
A lovely bevy of f aire Ladies sate, 
of many a jolly Paramoure. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 34. 
bewest 
4. A siniill collection of objects; an assem- 
blage r.l' things. [|{;uv or obsolete. ]=syn. 1. 
('<,/;,/, ete. See llnrk. 
bewail (be-wiil'), r. [< MK. linmilni. In in-ilni. 
liiiniili-ii, etc-., < In- + iriii/iii. wail : see />! and 
ii'nil. | I. trans. To mourn aloud for; bemoan; 
lament ; express di-eji sorrow for: as, to lii-innl 
the loss of a child. 
lio. -ive your teal^ to those that lose their Uoltlis. 
/' imfltl alMTlM. Flrl.-li.r. \ alentiniali. iv. 4. 
The ni^titiliu'ale 
Her ancient, hapless sorrow must /- 
Uii/inni M"i,i.. I'.aitiilj Paradise, I. 3V4. 
II. intrans. To express grief. 
Mourning and Ix'traili n-i e\c. edinu'l}'. 
ltllninl, tr. of l.ivy, p. 70. 
bewailable (be-wa'la-bl), a. [< !>t -iruil + -able.} 
Capable or worthy of being bewailed. 
bewailer (be-wa'ler), . One who bewails or 
laments. 
bewailing (He-wa'liiig), . Lamentation. 
bewailingly (be-wa'hng-li), adv. In a bewail- 
ing manner. 
bewailment (be-wal'ment), . [< bewail + 
-in cut.'] The act of bewailing; a lamentation. 
bewaket (be-wak' ), r. t. [< ME. bi'irnl.-i-ii. watch, 
" wake" a dead body, watch through (= D. be- 
waken = ft. bewacheit = 8w. bevaka), < be- + 
waken, wake : see be- 1 and wake 1 , and cf . bi- 
vouac.'] To watch, especially a dead body; ob- 
serve funeral rites for. (lower. 
beware (be-war'), v., prop.phr. [Formerly and 
prop, written separately, be ware, a phrase com- 
posed of the impv. or inf. of the verb be and the 
adj. ware; as in AS. bed wear (bed, Sdpers. sing, 
impv. of bedn), bed the w<er (the, thee, reflexive 
dative), be ware, just like E. be careful. So 
ME. "be wactherfor" (Chaucer); "A ha! fel- 
awes ! beth war of such a lape ! " (Chaucer), where 
beth is 2d pers. pi. impv., < AS. bedth. (See 
other ME. examples below. ) Like be gone, now 
begone, be ware came to be written as one word, 
beware, and then was classed by some authors 
with the numerous verbs in be- 1 , and inflected 
accordingly; hence the erroneous forms be- 
wares in Ben Jonson, and bewared in Dryden. 
This confusion may have been promoted by the 
existence of a ME. verb bewaren, show, exhibit, 
descended, with some change of sense, from 
AS. bewarian, guard, keep, preserve (= OFries. 
biwaria = D. bewaren = OHG. biwaron, MHG. 
bewaren, Q. bewahren = Sw. bevara = Dan. be- 
vare, keep, guard), < be- + tcarian, guard, < wcer, 
cautious, observant, E. ware 1 , as in be ware 
above. In the quotation from Chaucer, below, 
both forms appear. See ware 1 .] To be wary 
or cautious ; be on one's guard ; exercise care 
or vigilance : properly two words, be ware, con- 
sisting of the infinitive or imperative of be with 
the adjective ware: followed by of, expressed 
or understood, with the force of 'against,' 'in 
regard to': as, beware of evil associations; be- 
ware how you step; "beware the bear," Scott. 
Thus oughte wise men ben ware of foils ; 
If thou do so tin witte is wele bywared [shown]. 
Chaucer, Troilus, 1. 635. 
Be ye war of false prophets. Wyclif, Mat. vii. 15. 
That no man no scholde . . . war of him ben. 
Life of Thomas Beket (ed. Black), 1150. 
Beware of all, but most beu-are o/man. 
Pope, R. of the L., i. 114. 
Every one ought to be very careful to beware what he 
admit* for a principle. Locke. 
Beware the pine-tree's withered branch, 
Bemire the awful avalanche. LrngfeOote, Excelsior. 
bewash (be-wosh'), . t. [< be- 1 + wash.] To 
drench with water. [Rare.] 
Let the maids bewaith the men. 
Herrick, St. Distaff's Day. 
beweep (be-wep'), v. ; pret. and pp. bewept, ppr. 
beweeping. [< ME. bewepen, biwepen, < AS. be- 
u-epan (= OFries. biwepa = OS. biwopian), < be- 
+ wepan, weep : see be- 1 and weep.] I. trans. 
1. To weep over; deplore. 
Old fond eyes, 
Bnveep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out. 
Shak., Lear, i. 4. 
2. To bedew or wet with tears ; disfigure or 
mark with the signs of weeping. 
Fast by her syde doth wery labour stand, 
Pale fere also, and sorrow all bewept. 
TStr T. More, To Them that Trust In Fortune. 
n.t intrans. To weep ; make lamentation. 
bewest (be-west'), prep. [< ME. be west, bi- 
westen, < AS. be westan : be, prep., by ; westan, 
adv., west, from the west. Cf. be-east, benorth, 
besouth.] To the west of. [Scotch.] 
