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  • English Word Betulin Definition A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor.
  • English Word Betumble Definition To throw into disorder; to tumble.
  • English Word Betumbled Definition of Betumble
  • English Word Betutor Definition To tutor; to instruct.
  • English Word Betutored Definition of Betutor
  • English Word Between Definition In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
  • English Word Between Definition Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
  • English Word Between Definition Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
  • English Word Between Definition Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.
  • English Word Between Definition 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.
  • English Word Between Definition In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
  • English Word Between Definition Intermediate time or space; interval.
  • English Word Betwixt Definition In the space which separates; between.
  • English Word Betwixt Definition From one to another of; mutually affecting.
  • English Word Beurre Definition A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre Clairgeau.
  • English Word Bevel Definition 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.
  • English Word Bevel Definition 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.
  • English Word Bevel Definition Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
  • English Word Bevel Definition Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
  • English Word Bevel Definition To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
  • English Word Bevel Definition To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.
  • English Word Bevel gear Definition 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.
  • English Word Beveled Definition of Bevel
  • English Word Beveled Definition Alt. of Bevelled
  • English Word Beveling Definition of Bevel
  • English Word Bevelled Definition of Bevel
  • English Word Bevelled Definition Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.
  • English Word Bevelled Definition 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.
  • English Word Bevelling Definition of Bevel
  • English Word Bevelment Definition The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.