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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 835 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEVEL (from an O. Fr. word, cf. mod. biveau, a joiner's See also:instrument)  , the inclination of one See also:surface of a solid See also:body to another; also, any See also:angle other than a right angle, and particularly, in See also:joinery, the angle to which a piece of See also:timber has to be cut . The mechanic's See also:instrument known as a See also:bevel consists of a See also:rule with two arms so jointed as to be adjustable to any angle . In See also:heraldry, a bevel is an angular break in a See also:line . Bevelment, as a See also:term of See also:crystallography, means the replacement of an edge of a crystal by two planes equally inclined to the adjacent planes . As an architectural term " bevel " is a sloped or canted edge given to a See also:sill or See also:horizontal course of See also:stone, but is more frequently applied to the canted edges worked See also:round the projecting bands of See also:masonry which for decorative purposes are employed on the See also:quoins of walls or windows and in some cases, with See also:vertical See also:joints, See also:cover the whole See also:wall . When the See also:outer See also:face of the stone See also:band is See also:left rough so that it forms what is known as rusticated masonry, the description would be bevelled and rusticated . The term is sometimes applied to the splaying of the edges of a window on the outside, but the wide expansion made inside in See also:order to admit more See also:light is known as a splay .

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