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Belonging in common to two; shared by both. Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke.

Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. [Poetic] I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel. Shak. A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90º. -- Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.

Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books. -- Bib`li*o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

A history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.

undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

t possessed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination. -- Bill of store, a license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, custom free. Wharton. -- Bills payable (pl.), the outstanding unpaid notes or acceptances made and issue…

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

To write a history of the life of. Southey.

The written history of a person's life.

blank of half an inch from you. Swift. From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. Hallam. I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank. G. Eliot.

Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress. Till storm and driving ice blockade him there. Wordsworth.

or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and G…

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. To share the blood of Saxon royalty. Sir W. Scott. A friend of our own blood. Waller. Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half bl…

To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. [Colloq.] You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face. Bartlett. To blow hot and cold Etym: (a saying derived from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escap…

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of…

sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon. [Colloq.]

ence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.

sion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. The boast of historians. Macaulay.

[Written also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.