bevel, bevil

t. & i. [From bevil, s. (q.v.).] A. Transitive : 1. Of objects of human manufacture : To cut to a bevel angle. "These rabbets are ground square; but the rabbets on the groundsel are bevelled downwards, that rain may the free lier fall off." - Mozon . 2. Of objects in nature: To cause to po e a bevel. B. In trans.: To deflect from the perpendicular. "Their houses are very ill built, their walls bevil , without one right angle in any apartment."- Swift . běv-elled, + běv-eled, † běv-illed, pa. par. & a. [BEVEL, v.] A. Gen. In senses corresponding to those of the verb. IMG:content-1289.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Shipwright ing : (a) The opening and closing of angle-iron frames in order to meet the plates which form the skin of the ship, so that the faying surface of the side-arm of the angle-iron may exactly correspond to the shape of the plating. The bevelling is performed by smiths while the iron is lying hot upon the levelling-block. (b) The angles which the sides and edges of each piece of the frame make with each other. A standing bevelling is made on the outside; an under bevelling is one on the inner surface of a frame of timber. II. Ordinary Language. Of objects in nature: The same as BEVELMENT (q.v.). IMG:content-1290.png:[blocks in formation]