These are the meanings of the letters BELLEVUE when you unscramble them.
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Belle (n.)
A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.
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Bevel (a.)
Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
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Bevel (a.)
Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
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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.
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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.
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Bevel (v. i.)
To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.
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Bevel (v. t.)
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
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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.
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Levee (n.)
An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
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Levee (n.)
The act of rising.
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Levee (v. t.)
To attend the levee or levees of.
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Levee (v. t.)
To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
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Level (a.)
Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level.
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Level (a.)
Even with anything else; of the same height; on the same line or plane; on the same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by with, sometimes by to.
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Level (a.)
Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake.
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Level (a.)
Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.
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Level (a.)
Straightforward; direct; clear; open.
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Level (a.)
Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.]
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Level (n.)
A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at the given point.
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Level (n.)
A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine.
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Level (n.)
A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.
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Level (n.)
A measurement of the difference of altitude of two points, by means of a level; as, to take a level.
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Level (n.)
A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level.
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Level (n.)
An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea.
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Level (n.)
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
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Level (n.)
Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation.
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Level (v. i.)
To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object.
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Level (v. i.)
To be level; to be on a level with, or on an equality with, something; hence, to accord; to agree; to suit.
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Level (v. t.)
Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.; as, to level all the ranks and conditions of men.
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Level (v. t.)
To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level remarks to the capacity of children.
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Level (v. t.)
To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct.
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Level (v. t.)
To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
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Level (v. t.)
To make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat or even; as, to level a road, a walk, or a garden.