Beudantite

( Min.) A hydrous silicate of lead and peroxide of iron with phosphate of peroxide of iron. It occurs in small black and brown rhombohedrons in the district of Na au on the Rhine. Named after Beudant, a French mineralogist. Beulah, in N. Ca. , a twp. of Johnson co. Beust, FRIED RICH FERDINAND, BARON VON, B. in Dresden, Jan. 13, 1809, studied at Göttingen and Leipzig, and entered the Foreign Office. After holding the post of 1838, was Chargé d'Affaires at Munich in 1841, in London in 1846, and Amba ador to the Court of Berlin in 1848; Minister of Foreign Affairs for Saxony in Feb., 1849, receiving the portfolio for Agriculture in the following May. He took a prominent part in the discu ions preceding the treaty of 1852, and in 1853 became Minister of the Interior, when he resigned his post as Minister of Agriculture. On the breaking out of the Danish war, in 1863, Baron Von Beust distinguished himself by his fidelity to Federal interests, and by a rebuke he administered to Lord Ru ell in answer to a despatch from the latter. He represented the Germanic Diet at the London Conference of 1864, during the continuance of which he twice visited Paris to confer with the Emperor Napoleon, whose guest he was afterwards at Fontainebleau. After the war between Austria and Pru ia, Baron Von Beust was made Minister of the Household by the Emperor of Austria, Nov. 14, 1806, and President of the Council on the retirement of Count Belcredi, Feb. 4, 1867. The Emperor of Austria, acting under B.'s advice, made great conce ions to Hungary, besides important reforms in the administration of the empire. Appointed minister to England, Dec. 1871. D. 1886. Bev'an's, in New Jersey , a post-village of Su ex co. Bev'el, n. [Fr. buvean ; Ger. bügel , from biegen , to bend, to bend into a curve or angle.] ( Arch .) An instrument for taking angles. One side of a solid body is said to be bevelled with respect to another when the angle contained between their two sides is greater or le than a right angle. The term splay is nearly synonymous with B .; but it is applied to openings which have their vertical sides sloped for the purpose of en larging the aperture. - This name is also given to the instrument with which carpenters and masons work surfaces which are required to slope at the same angle. In its simplest form it is a piece of wood, with a thin plate of steel working in a groove at one end, so that it may form any angle with the wood le than two right angles. (Her.) Applied to a chief, open or broken, like a carpenter's rule. -v. a. To cut or form to a bevel angle. -v. n. To slant, or incline off to a bevel angle.