English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Between
(prep.)
Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving
reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition
between science and religion.
Between
(prep.)
With relation to two, as involved in an act or
attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge
between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and
me; to mediate between nations.
Between
(prep.)
In intermediate relation to, in respect to time,
quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
Between
(n.)
Intermediate time or space; interval.
Betwixt
(prep.)
In the space which separates; between.
Betwixt
(prep.)
From one to another of; mutually affecting.
Beurre
(n.)
A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and
melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre
Clairgeau.
Bevel
(n.)
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.
Bevel
(a.)
Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
Bevel
(a.)
Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
Bevel
(v. t.)
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
Bevel
(v. i.)
To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface;
to slant.
Bevel
(n.)
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.
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.
Beveled
(imp. & p. p.)
of Bevel
Beveled
(a.)
Alt. of Bevelled
Beveling
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Bevel
Bevelled
(a.)
Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of
a table.
Bevelled
(a.)
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.
of Bevel