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A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

ey 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.

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.

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

To make or become big; to enlarge. [Obs. or Dial.] Steele.

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.

The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

A rule steelyard. [Scot.]

rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.

to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

ass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

e film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

ocks connected by thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.

The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel. Tomlinson.