These are the meanings of the letters BELEVE when you unscramble them.
- Bevel (a.)
Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
- Bevel (a.)
Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
- 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 (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.
- Bevel (v. i.)
To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.
- Bevel (v. t.)
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
- Levee (n.)
A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.
- Levee (n.)
An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
- Levee (n.)
The act of rising.
- Levee (v. t.)
To attend the levee or levees of.
- Levee (v. t.)
To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.