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ure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

Spirit level. See Level.

With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween.

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

To prevent. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

See Asseverate. [Archaic]

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

Asseverative.

To stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A beef; a beef creature. They would knock down the first beeve they met with. W. Irving.

; plural of Beef, the animal.

e; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine. Our conqueror (whom I now Of force believe almighty). Milton. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets Acts xxvi. Often followed by a dependent clause. I believe that Jesus Christ is the…

One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

en 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.

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.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.