See also: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
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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
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In See also:heraldry, a bevel is an angular break in a See also:line
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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
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As an architectural term " bevel " is a sloped or canted edge given to a See also:- SILL
- SILL (O.Eng. syl, Mid. E. sylle, selle; the word appears in Icel. syll, svill, Swed. syll, and Dan. syld, and in German, as Schwelle; Skeat refers to the Teutonic root swal-, swell, the word meaning the rise or swell formed by a beam at a threshold; the L
- SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND (1841-1887)
sill or See also:horizontal course of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
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
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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
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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
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to admit more See also:light is known as a splay
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