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Bevel \Bev"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beveled} (?) or {Bevelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Beveling} or {Bevelling}.]
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
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Bevel \Bev"el\, v. i.
To deviate or incline from an angle of 90[deg], as a surface;
to slant.
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Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel.
--Swift.
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Bevel \Bev"el\, n. [C. F. biveau, earlier buveau, Sp. baivel; of
unknown origin. Cf. {Bevile}.]
1. 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.
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2. 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}. --Gwilt.
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Bevel \Bev"el\, a.
1. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
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2. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. [Poetic]
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I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.
--Shak.
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{A bevel angle}, any angle other than one of 90[deg].

{Bevel wheel}, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to
the axis. --Knight.
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